Re: problem with `display' from ImageMagick

Le 29 août 2006 à 13:31, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :

> Michèle Garoche wrote:
>> Le 28 août 2006 à 16:45, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> after upgrading `ImageMagick' today
>>>
>>> the `display' command responds to arbitrary input by displaying  
>>> it's help list and exits afterwards. `display' without argument  
>>> does the same instead of bringing up the "splash screen wizard".
>>>
>>> `convert' on the other hand still works.
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>> Assuming you use ImageMagick 6.2.8:
>> 1 - Copy the file /opt/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/images/logo.jpg  
>> in say home/Pictures or wherever is convenient to you; for  
>> example, in a Terminal Window type:
>> cp  /sw/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/images/logo.jpg ~/Pictures/
>> 2 - In the Apple X11 menu (if you use it), type:
>> display ~/Pictures/logo.png
>> or make a script (bash, applescript, what you want) to launch  
>> display with this icon.
>> The key here is that ImageMagick wants an image at launch time, so  
>> use any image you want, and then click on the window to get the  
>> menus.
> thanks, but I probably did not explain clearly enough what's  
> happening:
>
> both,
>
> `display' and `display {some_image_or_other}'
>
> do not work. in both cases, I only get the help text in the  
> terminal as if I had issued `display -help'. `display -version'  
> seems the only thing which reacts as expected, displaying only the  
> version number, not the help text. this is version 6.2.7.5 as  
> available at the moment via DarwinPorts and MacOS 10.4.7. on a G5
>
> in all previous versions (including 6.1.8 which as a work around I  
> installed via `fink' after having the described problem)
>
> `display' brings immediately up the splash screen (logo.jpg) and
> `display {some_image}' does just that (as it should :-)).
Oh, sorry, I did not read it correctly. I did have this behaviour  
around June with the without x option.
Maybe the with x variant works in DarwinPorts?




Cheers,
Michèle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>



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