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ImageMagick install on Windows 8

Posted: 2014-01-03T07:35:15-07:00
by metutel
Operating System: Windows 8.1
System Type: 64-bit, x64
Version: ImageMagick-6.8.8-1-Q16-x64-dll

I have been trying since yesterday to install ImageMagick as part of my Latexml installation. Please note that I am using Strawberry perl as my command line prompt.

I am able to run most of the setup wizard without any issues, however, when I am asked to do the following:

You have now installed ImageMagick. To test the installation select Command Prompt from the Windows Start menu. Within the window type:
convert wizard: wizard.jpg
convert wizard.jpg win:
and the ImageMagick wizard displays in a window.


I did some research, and I had to use the absolute path names to get it to run (which I think that it did), but the wizard window is nowhere to be found.

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C:\>"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.8.8-Q16\convert.exe" wizard:"C:\Program File
s\ImageMagick-6.8.8-Q16\images\wizard.jpg"
This worked, and I got a long list of directions about the image.

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C:\>"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.8.8-Q16\convert.exe" "C:\Program Files\Image
Magick-6.8.8-Q16\images\wizard.jpg" win:
This appeared to run, but the wizard did not pop up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: ImageMagick install on Windows 8

Posted: 2014-01-03T10:29:45-07:00
by snibgo
Don't worry about "win:" or "show:". They don't work on Windows. If you type "wizard.jpg" on the command line it should display the image.

(I don't know why the developers still include this as a confidence test.)

Re: ImageMagick install on Windows 8

Posted: 2014-01-03T10:57:38-07:00
by magick
win: and show: works for us under Windows 8.

Re: ImageMagick install on Windows 8

Posted: 2014-01-03T11:06:49-07:00
by Bonzo

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convert wizard: wizard.jpg
convert wizard.jpg win:
Just gives me an "Open with box" on windows 7.

Re: ImageMagick install on Windows 8

Posted: 2014-01-03T12:02:16-07:00
by snibgo
I am on Windows 8.1, IM v6.8.8-0.

I see that delegates has changed so show: and win: now call imdisplay. Running a command window with the IM directory as the first entry in my PATH, the commands ...

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convert logo: l.png
imdisplay
imdisplay l.png
... all work as expected.

But the commands ...

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convert l.png win:
convert logo: win:
convert logo: show:
... pause for about 4 seconds then finish without starting imdisplay.

With "-debug all" I see that they pause after showing:

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  Acquire C:/Users/Alan/AppData/Local/Temp/magick-37049kTQXEGDw9NI
2014-01-03T18:58:41+00:00 0:05.055 1.359u 6.8.8 Policy convert.exe[3704]: policy
.c/IsRightsAuthorized/485/Policy
  Domain: Delegate; rights=Execute; pattern="imdisplay" ...