convert -verbose imagefile without converting anything

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:41:23PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Man, who would have thunk it.
> identify -verbose image.TIF
> took 5 secs.
> convert -verbose image.TIF junk.TIF
> took one second.
> Go figure.
> Also to be wondered at is the fact that man convert doesn't mention
> identify. I guess you have to read the ImageMagick web page, but, why? They
> put other programs with the ImageMagick distribution into the man page for
> convert. Grr.. Documentation, again. I think I have come around to the point
> of view that nothing beats man pages for documentation. Forget the html
> stuff. Now, if only the authors of man pages would provide more examples.
> You would think text files take up a lot of space.
> Joel

"man convert" mentions the ImageMagick(1) manual page in the SEE
ALSO section at the bottom. ImageMagick(1), in turn, mentions identify
in the first 25 lines. I won't bother to mention "man identify".
Assuming you are using an RPM-based distribution, RPM will be happy
to list the contents of the ImageMagic package, which can be grepped
for all sorts of interesting information. But, I'm probably beating
a dead horse and you know all of this stuff anyway.

Kurt
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