ImageMagick: Command-line Tools: Import
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Description: ImageMagick (TM) is a free software suite to create, edit and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated. ImageMagick is free software: it is delivered with full source code and can be freely used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems. Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line; more often, however, the features are used from programs written in the programming languages Perl, C, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby or Java, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RubyMagick, and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automa [cell cut: 1159 characters, first 1000 kept]
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Use the `import` program to capture some or all of an X server screen and save the image to a file. See Command Line Processing for advice on how to structure your `import` command or see below for example usages of the command. ## Example Usage We list a few examples of the `import` command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, lets import an image in the JPEG format:
      import rose.jpg
To capture the entire X server screen in the Postscript image format:
      import -window root screen.ps
You can find additional examples of using `import` in Graphics from the Command Line. Further discussion is available in More Graphics from the Command Line and Examples of ImageMagick Usage. ## Option Summary The `import` command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.
Option | Description
--- | ---
-adjoin | join images into a single multi-image file
-annotate geometry text | annotate the image with text
-border | include image borders in the output image
-channel type | apply option to select image channels
-colors value | preferred number of colors in the image
-colorspace type | alternate image colorspace
-comment string | annotate image with comment
-compress type | image compression type
-contrast | enhance or reduce the image contrast
-crop geometry | preferred size and location of the cropped image
-debug events | import copious debugging information
-define format:option | define one or more image format options
-delay value | import the next image after pausing
-density geometry | horizontal and vertical density of the image
-depth value | image depth
-descend | obtain image by descending window hierarchy
-display server | get image or font from this X server
-dispose method | GIF disposal method
-dither | apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to image
-encoding type | text encoding type
-endian type | endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image
| -frame | include window manager frame
-geometry geometry | perferred size or location of the image
-gravity type | horizontal and vertical text placement
-help | print program options
-interlace type | type of image interlacing scheme
-label name | assign a label to an image
-limit type value | pixel cache resource limit
-log format | format of debugging information
-monitor | monitor progress
-monochrome | transform image to black and white
-negate | replace every pixel with its complementary color
-page geometry | size and location of an image canvas (setting)
-quality value | JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
-quiet | suppress all error or warning messages
-repage geometry | size and location of an image canvas
-resize geometry | resize the image
-rotate degrees | apply Paeth rotation to the image
-sampling-factor geometry | horizontal and vertical sampling factor
-scene value | image scene number
-screen | select image from root window
-set attribute value | set an image attribute
-silent | operate silently, i.e. don't ring any bells
-strip | strip image of all profiles and comments
-support factor | resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
-trim | trim image edges
-type type | image type
-verbose | print detailed information about the image
-version | print version information
-virtual-pixel method | access method for pixels outside the boundaries of the image
-window id | select window with this id or name

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