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List:       imagemagick-user
Subject:    RE: [magick-users] How to convert an image to TrueColor
From:       Ron Savage <ron () savage ! net ! au>
Date:       2002-09-30 23:31:52
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:15:38 +1000, Barris, Wes (LI, Uni of 
Queensland) wrote:

>>Identify is telling you about the image *after* decoding, not about
>>the formatted image.  Information about the original encoding is
>>gone
>>after ImageMagick receives it from the decoder.
>
>I think this is misleading.  If one is using "identify -verbose" to
>find out details about an image, the command should return details
>about
>the image instead of details about how it is decoded.  If one is
>looking at an image file that does not contain a colormap, the
>identify
>command should not falsely imply that there is a colormap.

I concur. Any artefact of decoding should be labelled as such. Any 
unlabelled report should refer to the (raw) image data. Of course, 
perhaps there are cases where the image data has to be decoded and 
cast into a structure in memory before it (that data) can be 
meaningfully identified :-).
-- 
Cheers
Ron Savage, ron@savage.net.au on 01/10/2002
http://savage.net.au/index.html


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