Contents

- AffineMatrix

- BlobInfo

- Cache

- ChannelType

- ChromaticityInfo

- ClassType

- ClipPathUnits

- ColorPacket

- ColorspaceType

- ComplianceType

- CompositeOperator

- CompressionType

- DecorationType

- DrawContext

- DrawInfo

- ErrorHandler

- ExceptionInfo

- ExceptionType

- FillRule

- FilterTypes

- FrameInfo

- GravityType

- Image

- ImageInfo

- ImageType

- InterlaceType

- LayerType

- MagickInfo

- MonitorHandler

- MontageInfo

- NoiseType

- PaintMethod

- PixelPacket

- PointInfo

- ProfileInfo

- QuantizeInfo

- Quantum

- QuantumType

- RectangleInfo

- RegistryType

- RenderingIntent

- ResolutionType

- ResourceType

- SegmentInfo

- SignatureInfo

- StorageType

- StreamHandler

- StretchType

- StyleType

- TypeMetric

- ViewInfo

- VirtualPixelMethod

- XResourceInfo

AffineMatrix

    typedef struct _AffineMatrix
    {
      double
        sx,
        rx,
        ry,
        sy,
        tx,
        ty;
    } AffineMatrix;

BlobInfo

    typedef struct _BlobInfo
    {
      size_t
        length,
        extent,
        quantum;

      unsigned int
        mapped,
        eof;

      magick_off_t
        offset,
        size;

      unsigned int
        exempt,
        status,
        temporary;

      StreamType
        type;

      FILE
        *file;

      StreamHandler
        stream;

      unsigned char
        *data;

      SemaphoreInfo
        *semaphore;

      long
        reference_count;

      unsigned long
        signature;
    } BlobInfo;

Cache

    typedef void
      *Cache;

ChannelType

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedChannel,
      RedChannel,
      CyanChannel,
      GreenChannel,
      MagentaChannel,
      BlueChannel,
      YellowChannel,
      OpacityChannel,
      BlackChannel,
      MatteChannel
    } ChannelType;

ChromaticityInfo

The ChromaticityInfo structure is used to represent chromaticity values for images in ImagesMagick.

The members of the ChromaticityInfo structure are shown in the following table:

ChromaticityInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
red_primary | PointInfo | Chromaticity red primary point (e.g. x=0.64, y=0.33)
green_primary | PointInfo | Chromaticity green primary point (e.g. x=0.3, y=0.6)
blue_primary | PointInfo | Chromaticity blue primary point (e.g. x=0.15, y=0.06)
white_point | PointInfo | Chromaticity white point (e.g. x=0.3127, y=0.329)

ClassType

ClassType enumeration specifies the image storage class.

ClassType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedClass | Unset value.
DirectClass | Image is composed of pixels which represent literal color values.
PseudoClass | Image is composed of pixels which specify an index in a color palette.

ClipPathUnits

    typedef enum
    {
      UserSpace,
      UserSpaceOnUse,
      ObjectBoundingBox
    } ClipPathUnits;

ColorPacket

    typedef struct _ColorPacket
    {
      PixelPacket
        pixel;

      unsigned short
        index;

      unsigned long
        count;
    } ColorPacket;

ColorspaceType

The ColorspaceType enumeration is used to specify the colorspace that quantization (color reduction and mapping) is done under or to specify the colorspace when encoding an output image. Colorspaces are ways of describing colors to fit the requirements of a particular application (e.g. Television, offset printing, color monitors). Color reduction, by default, takes place in the RGBColorspace. Empirical evidence suggests that distances in color spaces such as YUVColorspace or YIQColorspace correspond to perceptual color differences more closely han do distances in RGB space. These color spaces may give better results when color reducing an image. Refer to quantize for more details.

When encoding an output image, the colorspaces RGBColorspace, CMYKColorspace, and GRAYColorspace may be specified. The CMYKColorspace option is only applicable when writing TIFF, JPEG, and Adobe Photoshop bitmap (PSD) files.

ColorspaceType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedColorspace | Unset value.
RGBColorspace | Red-Green-Blue colorspace.
GRAYColorspace |
TransparentColorspace | The Transparent color space behaves uniquely in that it preserves the matte channel of the image if it exists.
OHTAColorspace |
XYZColorspace |
YCbCrColorspace |
YCCColorspace |
YIQColorspace |
YPbPrColorspace |
YUVColorspace | Y-signal, U-signal, and V-signal colorspace. YUV is most widely used to encode color for use in television transmission.
CMYKColorspace | Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black colorspace. CYMK is a subtractive color system used by printers and photographers for the rendering of colors with ink or emulsion, normally on a white surface.
sRGBColorspace |

ComplianceType

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedCompliance = 0x0000,
      NoCompliance = 0x0000,
      SVGCompliance = 0x0001,
      X11Compliance = 0x0002,
      XPMCompliance = 0x0004,
      AllCompliance = 0xffff
    } ComplianceType;

CompositeOperator

CompositeOperator is used to select the image composition algorithm used to compose a composite image with an image. By default, each of the composite image pixels are replaced by the corresponding image tile pixel. Specify CompositeOperator to select a different algorithm.

CompositeOperator

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedCompositeOp | Unset value.
OverCompositeOp | The result is the union of the the two image shapes with the composite image obscuring image in the region of overlap.
InCompositeOp | The result is a simply composite image cut by the shape of image. None of the image data of image is included in the result.
OutCompositeOp | The resulting image is composite image with the shape of image cut out.
AtopCompositeOp | The result is the same shape as image image, with composite image obscuring image there the image shapes overlap. Note that this differs from OverCompositeOp because the portion of composite image outside of image's shape does not appear in the result.
XorCompositeOp | The result is the image data from both composite image and image that is outside the overlap region. The overlap region will be blank.
PlusCompositeOp | The result is just the sum of the image data. Output values are cropped to 255 (no overflow). This operation is independent of the matte channels.
MinusCompositeOp | The result of composite image - image, with overflow cropped to zero. The matte chanel is ignored (set to 255, full coverage).
AddCompositeOp | The result of composite image + image, with overflow wrapping around (mod 256).
SubtractCompositeOp | The result of composite image - image, with underflow wrapping around (mod 256). The add and subtract operators can be used to perform reverible transformations.
DifferenceCompositeOp | The result of abs(composite image - image). This is useful for comparing two very similar images.
BumpmapCompositeOp | The result image shaded by composite image.
ReplaceCompositeOp | The resulting image is image replaced with composite image. Here the matte information is ignored.
ReplaceRedCompositeOp | The resulting image is the red layer in image replaced with the red layer in composite image. The other layers are copied untouched.
ReplaceGreenCompositeOp | The resulting image is the green layer in image replaced with the green layer in composite image. The other layers are copied untouched.
ReplaceBlueCompositeOp | The resulting image is the blue layer in image replaced with the blue layer in composite image. The other layers are copied untouched.

ReplaceMatteCompositeOp

The resulting image is the matte layer in image replaced with the matte layer in composite image. The other layers are copied untouched.

The image compositor requires a matte, or alpha channel in the image for some operations. This extra channel usually defines a mask which represents a sort of a cookie-cutter for the image. This is the case when matte is 255 (full coverage) for pixels inside the shape, zero outside, and between zero and 255 on the boundary. For certain operations, if image does not have a matte channel, it is initialized with 0 for any pixel matching in color to pixel location (0,0), otherwise 255 (to work properly borderWidth must be 0).

CompressionType

CompressionType is used to express the desired compression type when encoding an image. Be aware that most image types only support a sub-set of the available compression types. If the compression type specified is incompatable with the image, ImagesMagick selects a compression type compatable with the image type.

CompressionType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedCompression | Unset value.
NoCompression | No compression
BZipCompression | BZip (Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm and Huffman coding) as used by bzip2 utilities
FaxCompression | CCITT Group 3 FAX compression
Group4Compression | CCITT Group 4 FAX compression (used only for TIFF)
JPEGCompression | JPEG compression
LZWCompression | Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression (caution, patented by Unisys)
RunlengthEncodedCompression | Run-Length encoded (RLE) compression
ZipCompression | Lempel-Ziv compression (LZ77) as used in PKZIP and GNU gzip.

DecorationType

    typedef enum
    {
      NoDecoration,
      UnderlineDecoration,
      OverlineDecoration,
      LineThroughDecoration
    } DecorationType;

DrawContext

    typedef struct _DrawContext *DrawContext;

DrawInfo

The DrawInfo structure is used to support annotating an image using drawing commands.

Methods Supporting DrawInfo

Method | Description
GetDrawInfo() | Allocate new structure with defaults set.
CloneDrawInfo() | Copy existing structure, allocating new structure in the process.
DestroyDrawInfo() | Deallocate structure, including any members.
DrawImage() | Render primitives to image.

The members of the DrawInfo structure are shown in the following table. The structure is initialized to reasonable defaults by first initializing the equivalent members of ImageInfo, and then initializing the entire structure using GetDrawInfo().

DrawInfo Structure Members Supporting DrawImage()

Member | Type | Description
affine | AffineInfo | Coordinate transformation (rotation, scaling, and translation).
border_color | PixelPacket | Border color
box | PixelPacket | Text solid background color.
decorate | DecorationType | Text decoration type.
density | char * | Text rendering density in DPI (effects scaling font according to pointsize). E.g. "72x72"
fill | PixelPacket | Object internal fill (within outline) color.
font | char * | Font to use when rendering text.
gravity | GravityType | Text placement preference (e.g. NorthWestGravity).
linewidth | double | Stroke (outline) drawing width in pixels.
pointsize | double | Font size (also see density).
primitive | char * | Space or new-line delimited list of text drawing primitives (e.g "text 100,100 Cockatoo"). See the table Drawing Primitives for the available drawing primitives.
stroke | PixelPacket | Object stroke (outline) color.
stroke_antialias | unsigned int | Set to True (non-zero) to obtain anti-aliased stroke rendering.
text_antialias | unsigned int | Set to True (non-zero) to obtain anti-aliased text rendering.
tile | Image * | Image texture to draw with. Use an image containing a single color (e.g. a 1x1 image) to draw in a solid color.

### Drawing Primitives

The drawing primitives shown in the following table may be supplied as a space or new-line delimited list to the primitive member. Primitives which set drawing options effect the results from subsequent drawing operations. See the 'push graphic-context' and 'pop graphic-context' primitives for a way to control the propagation of drawing options.

Drawing Primitives

Primitive | Arguments | Purpose
affine | sx,rx,ry,sy,tx,ty | Apply coordinate transformations to support scaling (s), rotation (r), and translation (t). Angles are specified in radians. Equivalent to SVG matrix command which supplies a transformation matrix.
angle | angle | Specify object drawing angle.
arc | startX,startY endX,endY startDegrees,endDegrees | Draw an arc.
Bezier | x1,y1, x2,y2, x3,y3, ..., xN,yN | Draw a Bezier curve.
circle | originX,originY perimX,perimY | Draw a circle.
color | x,y (point|replace|floodfill|filltoborder|reset) | Set color in image according to specified colorization rule.
decorate | (none|underline|overline|line-through) | Specify text decoration.
ellipse | originX,originY width,height arcStart,arcEnd | Draw an ellipse.
fill | colorspec | Specifiy object filling color.
fill-opacity | opacity | Specify object fill opacity.
font | fontname | Specify text drawing font.
gravity | (NorthWest|North|NorthEast|West|Center|East|SouthWest|South|SouthEast) | Specify text positioning gravity.
image | x,y width,height filename | Composite image at position, scaled to specified width and height, and specified filename. If width or height is zero, scaling is not performed.
line | startX,startY endX,endY | Draw a line.
matte | x,y (point|replace|floodfill|filltoborder|reset) | Set matte in image according to specified colorization rule.
opacity | fillOpacity strokeOpacity | Specify drawing fill and stroke opacities.
path | 'SVG-compatible path arguments' | Draw using SVG-compatible path drawing commands.
point | x,y | Set point to fill color.
pointsize | pointsize | Specify text drawing pointsize (scaled to density).
polygon | x1,y1, x2,y2, x3,y3, ..., xN,yN | Draw a polygon.
polyline | x1,y1, x2,y2, x3,y3, ..., xN,yN | Draw a polyline.
pop | graphic-context | Remove options set since previous "push graphic-context" command. Options revert to those in effect prior to pushing the graphic context.
push | graphic-context | Specify new graphic context.
rect | upperLeftX,upperLeftY lowerRightX,lowerRightY | Draw a rectangle.
rotate | angle | Specify coordiante space rotation. Subsequent objects are drawn with coordate space rotated by specified angle.
roundrectangle | centerX,centerY width,hight cornerWidth,cornerHeight | Draw a rectangle with rounded corners.
stroke | colorspec | Specify object stroke (outline) color.
stroke-antialias | stroke_antialias (0 or 1) | Specify if stroke should be antialiased or not.
stroke-dash | value | Specify pattern to be used when drawing stroke.
stroke-opacity | opacity | Specify opacity of stroke drawing color.
stroke-width | linewidth | Specify stroke (outline) width in pixels.
text | x,y "some text" | Draw text at position.
text-antialias | text_antialias (0 or 1) | Specify if rendered text is to be antialiased (blend edges).
scale | x,y | Specify scaling to be applied to coordintate space for subsequent drawing commands.
translate | x,y | Specify center of coordinate space to use for subsequent drawing commands.

ErrorHandler

    typedef void
      (*ErrorHandler)(const ExceptionType,const char *,const char *);

ExceptionInfo

    typedef struct _ExceptionInfo
    {
      char
        *reason,
        *description;

      ExceptionType
        severity;

      unsigned long
        signature;
    } ExceptionInfo;

ExceptionType

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedException,
      WarningException = 300,
      ResourceLimitWarning = 300,
      TypeWarning = 305,
      OptionWarning = 310,
      DelegateWarning = 315,
      MissingDelegateWarning = 320,
      CorruptImageWarning = 325,
      FileOpenWarning = 330,
      BlobWarning = 335,
      StreamWarning = 340,
      CacheWarning = 345,
      CoderWarning = 350,
      ModuleWarning = 355,
      DrawWarning = 360,
      ImageWarning = 365,
      XServerWarning = 380,
      MonitorWarning = 385,
      RegistryWarning = 390,
      ConfigureWarning = 395,
      ErrorException = 400,
      ResourceLimitError = 400,
      TypeError = 405,
      OptionError = 410,
      DelegateError = 415,
      MissingDelegateError = 420,
      CorruptImageError = 425,
      FileOpenError = 430,
      BlobError = 435,
      StreamError = 440,
      CacheError = 445,
      CoderError = 450,
      ModuleError = 455,
      DrawError = 460,
      ImageError = 465,
      XServerError = 480,
      MonitorError = 485,
      RegistryError = 490,
      ConfigureError = 495,
      FatalErrorException = 700,
      ResourceLimitFatalError = 700,
      TypeFatalError = 705,
      OptionFatalError = 710,
      DelegateFatalError = 715,
      MissingDelegateFatalError = 720,
      CorruptImageFatalError = 725,
      FileOpenFatalError = 730,
      BlobFatalError = 735,
      StreamFatalError = 740,
      CacheFatalError = 745,
      CoderFatalError = 750,
      ModuleFatalError = 755,
      DrawFatalError = 760,
      ImageFatalError = 765,
      XServerFatalError = 780,
      MonitorFatalError = 785,
      RegistryFatalError = 790,
      ConfigureFatalError = 795
    } ExceptionType;

FillRule

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedRule,
      EvenOddRule,
      NonZeroRule
    } FillRule;

FilterTypes

FilterTypes is used to adjust the filter algorithm used when resizing images. Different filters experience varying degrees of success with various images and can take significantly different amounts of processing time. ImagesMagick uses the LanczosFilter by default since this filter has been shown to provide the best results for most images in a reasonable amount of time. Other filter types (e.g. TriangleFilter) may execute much faster but may show artifacts when the image is re-sized or around diagonal lines. The only way to be sure is to test the filter with sample images.

FilterTypes

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedFilter | Unset value.
PointFilter | Point Filter
BoxFilter | Box Filter
TriangleFilter | Triangle Filter
HermiteFilter | Hermite Filter
HanningFilter | Hanning Filter
HammingFilter | Hamming Filter
BlackmanFilter | Blackman Filter
GaussianFilter | Gaussian Filter
QuadraticFilter | Quadratic Filter
CubicFilter | Cubic Filter
CatromFilter | Catrom Filter
MitchellFilter | Mitchell Filter
LanczosFilter | Lanczos Filter
BesselFilter | Bessel Filter
SincFilter | Sinc Filter

FrameInfo

    typedef struct _FrameInfo
    {
      unsigned long
        width,
        height;

      long
        x,
        y,
        inner_bevel,
        outer_bevel;
    } FrameInfo;

GravityType

GravityType specifies positioning of an object (e.g. text, image) within a bounding region (e.g. an image). Gravity provides a convenient way to locate objects irrespective of the size of the bounding region, in other words, you don't need to provide absolute coordinates in order to position an object. A common default for gravity is NorthWestGravity.

GravityType

Enumeration | Description
ForgetGravity | Don't use gravity.
NorthWestGravity | Position object at top-left of region.
NorthGravity | Postiion object at top-center of region
NorthEastGravity | Position object at top-right of region
WestGravity | Position object at left-center of region
CenterGravity | Position object at center of region
EastGravity | Position object at right-center of region
SouthWestGravity | Position object at left-bottom of region
SouthGravity | Position object at bottom-center of region
SouthEastGravity | Position object at bottom-right of region

Image

The Image structure represents an ImagesMagick image. It is initially allocated by AllocateImage() and deallocated by DestroyImage(). The functions ReadImage(), ReadImages(), BlobToImage() and CreateImage() return a new image. Use CloneImage() to copy an image. An image consists of a structure containing image attribute as well as the image pixels.

The image pixels are represented by the structure PixelPacket and are cached in-memory, or on disk, depending on the cache threshold setting. This cache is known as the "pixel cache". Pixels in the cache may not be edited directly. They must first be made visible from the cache via a pixel view. A pixel view is a rectangular view of the pixels as defined by a starting coordinate, and a number of rows and columns. When considering the varying abilities of multiple platforms, the most reliably efficient pixel view is comprized of part, or all, of one image row.

There are two means of accessing pixel views. When using the default view, the pixels are made visible and accessable by using the GetImagePixels() method which provides access to a specified region of the image. After the view has been updated, thhe pixels may be saved back to the cache in their original positions via SyncImagePixels(). In order to create an image with new contents, or to blindly overwrite existing contents, the method SetImagePixels() is used to reserve a pixel view corresponding to a region in the pixel cache. Once the pixel view has been updated, it may be written to the cache via SyncImagePixels(). The function GetIndexes() provides access to the image colormap, represented as an array of type IndexPacket.

A more flexible interface to the image pixels is via the CacheView interface. This interface supports multiple pixel cache views (limited by the number of image rows), each of which are identified by a handle (of type ViewInfo*). Use OpenCacheView() to obtain a new cache view, CloseCacheView() to discard a cache view, GetCacheView() to access an existing pixel region, SetCacheView() to define a new pixel region, and SyncCacheView() to save the updated pixel region. The function GetCacheViewIndexes() provides access to the colormap indexes associated with the pixel view.

When writing encoders and decoders for new image formats, it is convenient to have a high-level interface available which supports converting between external pixel representations and ImagesMagick's own representation. Pixel components (red, green, blue, opacity, RGB, or RGBA) may be transferred from a user-supplied buffer into the default view by using PushImagePixels(). Pixel components may be transferred from the default view into a user-supplied buffer by using PopImagePixels(). Use of this high-level interface helps protect image coders from changes to ImagesMagick's pixel representation and simplifies the implementation.

The members of the Image structure are shown in the following table:

Image Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
attribute | ImageAttribute* | Image attribute list. Consists of a doubly-linked-list of ImageAttribute structures, each of which has an associated key and value. Access/update list via SetImageAttribute() and GetImageAttribute(). Key-strings used by ImagesMagick include "Comment" (image comment) , "Label" (image label), and "Signature" (image signature).
ImageAttributebackground_color | PixelPacket | Image background color
blur | double | Blur factor to apply to the image when zooming
border_color | PixelPacket | Image border color
chromaticity | ChromaticityInfo | Red, green, blue, and white-point chromaticity values.
color_profile | ProfileInfo | ICC color profile. Specifications are available from the International Color Consortium for the format of ICC color profiles.
colormap | PixelPacket * | PseudoColor palette array.
colors | unsigned int | The desired number of colors. Used by QuantizeImage().
colorspace | ColorspaceType | Image pixel interpretation.If the colorspace is RGB the pixels are red, green, blue. If matte is true, then red, green, blue, and index. If it is CMYK, the pixels are cyan, yellow, magenta, black. Otherwise the colorspace is ignored.
columns | unsigned int | Image width
comments | char * | Image comments
compression | CompressionType | Image compresion type. The default is the compression type of the specified image file.
delay | unsigned int | Time in 1/100ths of a second (0 to 65535) which must expire before displaying the next image in an animated sequence. This option is useful for regulating the animation of a sequence of GIF images within Netscape.
depth | unsigned int | Image depth (8 or 16). QuantumLeap must be defined before a depth of 16 is valid.
directory | char * | Tile names from within an image montage. Only valid after calling MontageImages() or reading a MIFF file which contains a directory.
dispose | unsigned int | GIF disposal method. This option is used to control how successive frames are rendered (how the preceding frame is disposed of) when creating a GIF animation.
exception | ExceptionInfo | Record of any error which occurred when updating image.
file | FILE * | Stdio stream to read image from or write image to. If set, ImagesMagick will read from or write to the stream rather than opening a file. Used by ReadImage() and WriteImage(). The stream is closed when the operation completes.
filename | char[MaxTextExtent] | Image file name to read or write.
filesize | long int | Number of bytes of the encoded file.
filter | FilterTypes | Filter to use when resizing image. The reduction filter employed has a significant effect on the time required to resize an image and the resulting quality. The default filter is Lanczos which has been shown to produce high quality results when reducing most images.
fuzz | int | Colors within this distance are considered equal. A number of algorithms search for a target color. By default the color must be exact. Use this option to match colors that are close to the target color in RGB space.
gamma | double | Gamma level of the image. The same color image displayed on two different workstations may look different due to differences in the display monitor. Use gamma correction to adjust for this color difference.
geometry | char * | Preferred size of the image when encoding.

interlace

InterlaceType

The type of interlacing scheme (default NoInterlace). This option is used to specify the type of interlacing scheme for raw image formats such as RGB or YUV. NoInterlace means do not interlace, LineInterlace uses scanline interlacing, and PlaneInterlace uses plane interlacing. PartitionInterlace is like PlaneInterlace except the different planes are saved to individual files (e.g. image.R, image.G, and image.B). Use LineInterlace or PlaneInterlace to create an interlaced GIF or progressive JPEG image.

iptc_profile | ProfileInfo | IPTC profile. Specifications are available from the International Press Telecommunications Council for IPTC profiles.
iterations | unsigned int | Number of iterations to loop an animation (e.g. Netscape loop extension) for.
list | struct _Image * | Undo image list (used only by 'display')
magick | char[MaxTextExtent] | Image encoding format (e.g. "GIF").
magick_columns | unsigned int | Base image width (before transformations)
magick_filename | char[MaxTextExtent] | Base image filename (before transformations)
magick_rows | unsigned int | Base image height (before transformations)
matte | unsigned int | If non-zero, then the index member of pixels represents the alpha channel.
matte_color | PixelPacket | Image matte (transparent) color
mean_error_per_pixel | unsigned int | The mean error per pixel computed when an image is color reduced. This parameter is only valid if verbose is set to true and the image has just been quantized.
montage | char * | Tile size and offset within an image montage. Only valid for montage images.
next | struct _Image * | Next image frame in sequence
normalized_maximum_error | double | The normalized max error per pixel computed when an image is color reduced. This parameter is only valid if verbose is set to true and the image has just been quantized.
normalized_mean_error | double | The normalized mean error per pixel computed when an image is color reduced. This parameter is only valid if verbose is set to true and the image has just been quantized.
offset | int | Number of initial bytes to skip over when reading raw image.
orphan | unsigned int | When set, CloneImage() clones only the current frame, creating an "orphan" frame.
page | RectangleInfo | Equivalent size of Postscript page.
pipe | int | Set to True if image is read/written from/to a POSIX pipe. To read from (or write to) an open pipe, set this member to True, set the file member to a stdio stream representing the pipe (obtained from popen()), and invoke ReadImage()/WriteImage(). The pipe is automatically closed via pclose() when the operation completes.
pixels | PixelPacket * | Image pixels retrieved via GetPixelCache() or initialized via SetPixelCache().
previous | struct _Image * | Previous image frame in sequence.
rendering_intent | RenderingIntent | The type of rendering intent.
rows | unsigned int | Image height
scene | unsigned int | Image frame scene number.
storage_class | ClassType | Image storage class. If DirectClass then the image packets contain valid RGB or CMYK colors. If PseudoClass then the image has a colormap referenced by pixel's index member.
tainted | int | Set to non-zero (True) if the image pixels have been modified.
tile_info | RectangleInfo | Describes a tile within an image. For example, if your images is 640x480 you may only want 320x256 with an offset of +128+64. It is used for raw formats such as RGB and CMYK as well as for TIFF.
timer | TimerInfo | Support for measuring actual (user + system) and elapsed execution time.
total_colors | unsigned long | The number of colors in the image after QuantizeImage(), or QuantizeImages() if the verbose flag was set before the call. Calculated by GetNumberColors().
units | ResolutionType | Units of image resolution
x_resolution | double | Horizontal resolution of the image
y_resolution | double | Vertical resolution of the image

ImageInfo

The ImageInfo structure is used to supply option information to the functions AllocateImage(), AnimateImages(), BlobToImage(), CloneAnnotateInfo(), DisplayImages(), GetAnnotateInfo(), ImageToBlob(), PingImage(), ReadImage(), ReadImages(), and,
WriteImage(). These functions update information in ImageInfo to reflect attributes of the current image.

Use CloneImageInfo() to duplicate an existing ImageInfo structure or allocate a new one.
Use DestroyImageInfo() to deallocate memory associated with an ImageInfo structure.
Use GetImageInfo() to initialize an existing ImageInfo structure.
Use SetImageInfo() to set image type information in the ImageInfo structure based on an existing image.

The members of the ImageInfo structure are shown in the following table:

ImageInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
adjoin | unsigned int | Join images into a single multi-image file.
antialias | unsigned int | Control antialiasing of rendered Postscript and Postscript or TrueType fonts. Enabled by default.
background_color | PixelPacket | Image background color.
border_color | PixelPacket | Image border color.
colorspace | ColorspaceType | Image pixel interpretation.If the colorspace is RGB the pixels are red, green, blue. If matte is true, then red, green, blue, and index. If it is CMYK, the pixels are cyan, yellow, magenta, black. Otherwise the colorspace is ignored.
compression | CompressionType | Image compresion type. The default is the compression type of the specified image file.
delay | char * | Time in 1/100ths of a second (0 to 65535) which must expire before displaying the next image in an animated sequence. This option is useful for regulating the animation of a sequence of GIF images within Netscape.
density | char * | Vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image. This option specifies an image density when decoding a Postscript or Portable Document page. Often used with page.
depth | unsigned int | Image depth (8 or 16). QuantumLeap must be defined before a depth of 16 is valid.
dispose | char * | GIF disposal method. This option is used to control how successive frames are rendered (how the preceding frame is disposed of) when creating a GIF animation.
dither | unsigned int | Apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image. The basic strategy of dithering is to trade intensity resolution for spatial resolution by averaging the intensities of several neighboring pixels. Images which suffer from severe contouring when reducing colors can be improved with this option. The colors or monochrome option must be set for this option to take effect.
file | FILE * | Stdio stream to read image from or write image to. If set, ImageMagick will read from or write to the stream rather than opening a file. Used by ReadImage() and WriteImage(). The stream is closed when the operation completes.
filename | char[MaxTextExtent] | Image file name to read or write.
fill | PixelPacket | Drawing object fill color.
font | char * | Text rendering font. If the font is a fully qualified X server font name, the font is obtained from an X server. To use a TrueType font, precede the TrueType filename with an @. Otherwise, specify a Postscript font name (e.g. "helvetica").
fuzz | int | Colors within this distance are considered equal. A number of algorithms search for a target color. By default the color must be exact. Use this option to match colors that are close to the target color in RGB space.

interlace

InterlaceType

The type of interlacing scheme (default NoInterlace). This option is used to specify the type of interlacing scheme for raw image formats such as RGB or YUV. NoInterlace means do not interlace, LineInterlace uses scanline interlacing, and PlaneInterlace uses plane interlacing. PartitionInterlace is like PlaneInterlace except the different planes are saved to individual files (e.g. image.R, image.G, and image.B). Use LineInterlace or PlaneInterlace to create an interlaced GIF or progressive JPEG image.

iterations | char * | Number of iterations to loop an animation (e.g. Netscape loop extension) for.
linewidth | unsigned int | Line width for drawing lines, circles, ellipses, etc.
magick | char[MaxTextExtent] | Image encoding format (e.g. "GIF").
matte_color | PixelPacket | Image matte (transparent) color.
monochrome | unsigned int | Transform the image to black and white.
page | char * | Equivalent size of Postscript page.
ping | unsigned int | Set to True to read enough of the image to determine the image columns, rows, and filesize. The columns, rows, and size attributes are valid after invoking ReadImage() while ping is set. The image data is not valid after calling ReadImage() if ping is set.
pointsize | double | Text rendering font point size.
preview_type | PreviewType | Image manipulation preview option. Used by 'display'.
quality | unsigned int | JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level (default 75).
server_name | char * | X11 display to display to obtain fonts from, or to capture image from.
size | char * | Width and height of a raw image (an image which does not support width and height information). Size may also be used to affect the image size read from a multi-resolution format (e.g. Photo CD, JBIG, or JPEG.
stroke | PixelPacket | Drawing object outline color.
subimage | unsigned int | Subimage of an image sequence.
subrange | unsigned int | Number of images relative to the base image.
texture | char * | Image filename to use as background texture.
tile | char * | Tile name.
units | ResolutionType | Units of image resolution.
verbose | unsigned int | Print detailed information about the image if True.
view | char * | FlashPix viewing parameters.

ImageType

ImageType indicates the type classification of the image.

ImageType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedType | Unset value.
BilevelType | Monochrome image
GrayscaleType | Grayscale image
PaletteType | Indexed color (palette) image
PaletteMatteType | Indexed color (palette) image with opacity
TrueColorType | Truecolor image
TrueColorMatteType | Truecolor image with opacity
ColorSeparationType | Cyan/Yellow/Magenta/Black (CYMK) image

InterlaceType

InterlaceType specifies the ordering of the red, green, and blue pixel information in the image. Interlacing is usually used to make image information available to the user faster by taking advantage of the space vs time tradeoff. For example, interlacing allows images on the Web to be recognizable sooner and satellite images to accumulate/render with image resolution increasing over time.

Use LineInterlace or PlaneInterlace to create an interlaced GIF or progressive JPEG image.

InterlaceType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedInterlace | Unset value.
NoInterlace | Don't interlace image (RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBRGB...)
LineInterlace | Use scanline interlacing (RRR...GGG...BBB...RRR...GGG...BBB...)
PlaneInterlace | Use plane interlacing (RRRRRR...GGGGGG...BBBBBB...)
PartitionInterlace | Similar to plane interlaing except that the different planes are saved to individual files (e.g. image.R, image.G, and image.B)

LayerType

LayerType is used as an argument when doing color separations. Use LayerType when extracting a layer from an image. MatteLayer is useful for extracting the opacity values from an image.

LayerType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedLayer | Unset value.
RedLayer | Select red layer
GreenLayer | Select green layer
BlueLayer | Select blue layer
MatteLayer | Select matte (opacity values) layer

MagickInfo

The MagickInfo structure is used by ImagesMagick to register support for an image format. The MagickInfo structure is allocated with default parameters by calling SetMagickInfo(). Image formats are registered by calling RegisterMagickInfo() which adds the initial structure to a linked list (at which point it is owned by the list). A pointer to the structure describing a format may be obtained by calling GetMagickInfo(). Pass the argument NULL to obtain the first member of this list. A human-readable list of registered image formats may be printed to a file descriptor by calling ListMagickInfo().

Support for formats may be provided as a module which is part of the ImagesMagick library, provided by a module which is loaded dynamically at run-time, or directly by the linked program. Users of ImagesMagick will normally want to create a loadable-module, or support encode/decode of an image format directly from within their program.

### Sample Module:

The following shows sample code for a module called "GIF" (gif.c). Note that the names of the Register and Unregister call-back routines are calculated at run-time, and therefore must follow the rigid naming scheme `RegisterFORMATImage` and `UnregisterFORMATImage`, respectively, where FORMAT is the upper-cased name of the module file:

    /* Read image */
    Image *ReadGIFImage(const ImageInfo *image_info)
    {
     [ decode the image ... ]
    }

    /* Write image */
    unsigned int WriteGIFImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,Image *image)
    {
     [ encode the image ... ]
    }

    /* Module call-back to register support for formats */
    void RegisterGIFImage(void)
    {
     MagickInfo
     *entry;
     entry=SetMagickInfo("GIF");
     entry->decoder=ReadGIFImage;
     entry->encoder=WriteGIFImage;
     entry->description=AllocateString("CompuServe graphics interchange format");
     entry->module=AllocateString("GIF");
     RegisterMagickInfo(entry);
     entry=SetMagickInfo("GIF87");
     entry->decoder=ReadGIFImage;
     entry->encoder=WriteGIFImage;
     entry->adjoin=False;
     entry->description=
     AllocateString("CompuServe graphics interchange format (version 87a)");
     entry->module=AllocateString("GIF");
     RegisterMagickInfo(entry);
    }

    /* Module call-back to unregister support for formats */
    Export void UnregisterGIFImage(void)
    {
     UnregisterMagickInfo("GIF");
     UnregisterMagickInfo("GIF87");
    }

### Sample Application Code

Image format support provided within the user's application does not need to implement the RegisterFORMATImage and UnregisterFORMATImage call-back routines. Instead, the application takes responsibility for the registration itself. An example follows:

    /* Read image */
    Image *ReadGIFImage(const ImageInfo *image_info)
    {
     [ decode the image ... ]
    }
    /* Write image */
    unsigned int WriteGIFImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,Image *image)
    {
     [ encode the image ... ]
    }
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main( void )
    {
     struct MagickInfo* info;
     info = SetMagickInfo("GIF");
     if ( info == (MagickInfo*)NULL )
     exit(1);
     info->decoder = ReadGIFImage;
     info->encoder = WriteGIFImage;
     info->adjoin = False;
     info->description = AllocateString("CompuServe graphics interchange format");
     /* Add MagickInfo structure to list */
     RegisterMagickInfo(info);
     info = GetMagickInfo("GIF");
     [ do something with info ... ]
     ListMagickInfo( stdout );
     return;
    }

### MagickInfo Structure Definition

The members of the MagickInfo structure are shown in the following table:

MagickInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
adjoin | unsigned int | Set to non-zero (True) if this file format supports multi-frame images.
blob_support | unsigned int | Set to non-zero (True) if the encoder and decoder for this format supports operating on arbitrary BLOBs (rather than only disk files).
data | void * | User specified data. A way to pass any sort of data structure to the endoder/decoder. To set this, GetMagickInfo() must be called to first obtain a pointer to the registered structure since it can not be set via a RegisterMagickInfo() parameter.
decoder | Image *(*decoder)(const ImageInfo *) | Function to decode image data and return ImagesMagick Image.
description | char * | Long form image format description (e.g. "CompuServe graphics interchange format").
encoder | unsigned int (*encoder)(const ImageInfo *, Image *) | Function to encode image data with options passed via ImageInfo and image represented by Image.
module | char * | Name of module (e.g. "GIF") which registered this format. Set to NULL if format is not registered by a module.
name | const char * | Magick string (e.g. "GIF") which identifies this format.
raw | unsigned int | Image format does not contain size (must be specified in ImageInfo).

MonitorHandler

MonitorHandler is the function type to be used for the progress monitor callback. Its definition is as follows:

    typedef unsigned int
      (*MonitorHandler)(const char *text, const magick_int64_t quantum,
        const magick_uint64_t span, ExceptionInfo *exception);

The operation of the monitor handler is described in the following table:

Parameter | Type | Description
return status | unsigned int | The progress monitor should normally return True (a non-zero value) if the operation is to continue. If the progress monitor returns false, then the operation is will be aborted. This mechanism allows a user to terminate a process which is taking too long to complete.
text | const char * | A description of the current operation being performed.
quantum | const magick_int64_t | A value within the range of 0 to span which indicates the degree of progress.
span | const magick_uint64_t | The total range that quantum will span.
exception | exceptionInfo * | If the progress monitor returns False (abort operation), it should also update the structure passed via the exception parameter so that an error message may be reported to the user.

MontageInfo

    typedef struct _MontageInfo
    {
      char
        *geometry,
        *tile,
        *title,
        *frame,
        *texture,
        *font;

      double
        pointsize;

      unsigned long
        border_width;

      unsigned int
        shadow;

      PixelPacket
        fill,
        stroke,
        background_color,
        border_color,
        matte_color;

      GravityType
        gravity;

      char
        filename[MaxTextExtent];

      unsigned long
        signature;
    } MontageInfo;

NoiseType

NoiseType is used as an argument to select the type of noise to be added to the image.

NoiseType

Enumeration | Description
UniformNoise | Uniform noise
GaussianNoise | Gaussian noise
MultiplicativeGaussianNoise | Multiplicative Gaussian noise
ImpulseNoise | Impulse noise
LaplacianNoise | Laplacian noise
PoissonNoise | Poisson noise

PaintMethod

PaintMethod specifies how pixel colors are to be replaced in the image. It is used to select the pixel-filling algorithm employed.

PaintMethod

Enumeration | Description
PointMethod | Replace pixel color at point.
ReplaceMethod | Replace color for all image pixels matching color at point.
FloodfillMethod | Replace color for pixels surrounding point until encountering pixel that fails to match color at point.
FillToBorderMethod | Replace color for pixels surrounding point until encountering pixels matching border color.
ResetMethod | Replace colors for all pixels in image with pen color.

PixelPacket

The PixelPacket structure is used to represent DirectClass color pixels in ImagesMagick. If the image is indicated as a PseudoClass image, its DirectClass representation is only valid immediately after calling SyncImage(). If an image is set as PseudoClass and the DirectClass representation is modified, the image should then be set as DirectClass. Use QuantizeImage() to restore the PseudoClass colormap if the DirectClass representation is modified.

The members of the PixelPacket structure are shown in the following table:

PixelPacket Structure Members

Member | Type | Interpretation
RGBColorspace (3) | RGBColorspace + matte(3) | CMYKColorspace
red | Quantum | Red | Red | Cyan
green | Quantum | Green | Green | Magenta
blue | Quantum | Blue | Blue | Yellow
opacity | Quantum | Ignored | Opacity | Ignored

Notes:

1. Quantum is an unsigned short (MaxRGB=65535) if ImagesMagick is built using -DQuantumDepth=16 Otherwise it is an unsigned char (MaxRGB=255).

2. SyncImage() may be used to synchronize the DirectClass color pixels to the current PseudoClass colormap.

3. For pixel representation purposes, all colorspaces are treated like RGBColorspace except for CMYKColorspace.

PointInfo

The PointInfo structure is used by the ChromaticityInfo structure to specify chromaticity point values.

The members of the PointInfo structure are shown in the following table:

PointInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
x | double | X ordinate
y | double | Y ordinate
z | double | Z ordinate

ProfileInfo

The ProfileInfo structure is used to represent ICC or IPCT profiles in ImagesMagick (stored as an opaque BLOB).

The members of the ProfileInfo structure are shown in the following table:

ProfileInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
length | unsigned int | Profile length
info | unsigned char * | Profile data

QuantizeInfo

The QuantizeInfo structure is used to support passing parameters to ImagesMagick's color quantization (reduction) functions. Color quantization is the process of analyzing one or more images, and calculating a color palette which best approximates the image within a specified colorspace, and then adjusting the image pixels to use the calculated color palette. The maximum number of colors allowed in the color palette may be specified.

Methods Supporting QuantizeInfo

Method | Description
GetQuantizeInfo() | Allocate new structure with defaults set.
CloneQuantizeInfo() | Copy existing structure, allocating new structure in the process.
DestroyQuantizeInfo() | Deallocate structure, including any members.
QuantizeImage | Analyzes the colors within a reference image and chooses a fixed number of colors to represent the image.
QuantizeImages | Analyzes the colors within a set of reference images and chooses a fixed number of colors to represent the set.

QuantizeInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description

colorspace

ColorspaceType

The colorspace to quantize in. Color reduction, by default, takes place in the RGB color space. Empirical evidence suggests that distances in color spaces such as YUV or YIQ correspond to perceptual color differences more closely than do distances in RGB space. The Transparent color space behaves uniquely in that it preserves the matte channel of the image if it exists.

dither | unsigned int | Set to True (non-zero) to apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image. When the size of the color palette is less than the image colors, this trades off spacial resolution for color resolution by dithering to achieve a similar looking image.
measure_error | unsigned int | Set to True (non-zero) to calculate quantization errors when quantizing the image.
number_colors | unsigned int | Specify the maximum number of colors in the output image. Must be equal to, or less than MaxRGB, which is determined by the value of QuantumLeap when ImagesMagick was compiled.
signature | unsigned long | ???
tree_depth | unsigned int | Specify the tree depth to use while quantizing. The values zero and one support automatic tree depth determination. The tree depth may be forced via values ranging from two to eight. The ideal tree depth depends on the characteristics of the input image, and may be determined through experimentation.

Quantum

QuantumType

QuantumType is used to indicate the source or destination format of entire pixels, or components of pixels ("Quantums") while they are being read, or written to, a pixel cache. The validity of these format specifications depends on whether the Image pixels are in RGB format, RGBA format, or CMYK format. The pixel Quantum size is determined by the Image depth (eight or sixteen bits).

RGB(A) Image Quantums

Enumeration | Description
IndexQuantum | PseudoColor colormap indices (valid only for image with colormap)
RedQuantum | Red pixel Quantum
GreenQuantum | Green pixel Quantum
BlueQuantum | Blue pixel Quantum
OpacityQuantum | Opacity (Alpha) Quantum

CMY(K) Image Quantum

Enumeration | Description
CyanQuantum | Cyan pixel Quantum
MagentaQuantum | Magenta pixel Quantum
YellowQuantum | Yellow pixel Quantum
BlackQuantum | Black pixel Quantum

Grayscale Image Quantums

Enumeration | Description
GrayQuantum | Gray pixel
GrayOpacityQuantum | Pixel opacity

Entire Pixels (Expressed in Byte Order)

Enumeration | Description
RGBQuantum | RGB pixel (24 or 48 octets)
RGBAQuantum | RGBA pixel (32 or 64 octets)
CMYKQuantum | CMYK pixel (32 or 64 octets)

RectangleInfo

The RectangleInfo structure is used to represent positioning information in ImagesMagick.

The members of the RectangleInfo structure are shown in the following table:

RectangleInfo Structure Members

Member | Type | Description
width | unsigned int | Rectangle width
height | unsigned int | Rectangle height
x | int | Rectangle horizontal offset
y | int | Rectangle vertical offset

RegistryType

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedRegistryType,
      ImageRegistryType,
      ImageInfoRegistryType
    } RegistryType;

RenderingIntent

Rendering intent is a concept defined by ICC Spec ICC.1:1998-09, "File Format for Color Profiles". ImagesMagick uses RenderingIntent in order to support ICC Color Profiles.

From the specification: "Rendering intent specifies the style of reproduction to be used during the evaluation of this profile in a sequence of profiles. It applies specifically to that profile in the sequence and not to the entire sequence. Typically, the user or application will set the rendering intent dynamically at runtime or embedding time."

RenderingIntent

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedIntent | Unset value.
SaturationIntent | A rendering intent that specifies the saturation of the pixels in the image is preserved perhaps at the expense of accuracy in hue and lightness.
PerceptualIntent | A rendering intent that specifies the full gamut of the image is compressed or expanded to fill the gamut of the destination device. Gray balance is preserved but colorimetric accuracy might not be preserved.
AbsoluteIntent | Absolute colorimetric
RelativeIntent | Relative colorimetric

ResolutionType

By default, ImagesMagick defines resolutions in pixels per inch. ResolutionType provides a means to adjust this.

ResolutionType

Enumeration | Description
UndefinedResolution | Unset value.
PixelsPerInchResolution | Density specifications are specified in units of pixels per inch (english units).
PixelsPerCentimeterResolution | Density specifications are specified in units of pixels per centimeter (metric units).

ResourceType

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedResource,
      FileResource,
      MemoryResource,
      MapResource,
      DiskResource
    } ResourceType;

SegmentInfo

    typedef struct _SegmentInfo
    {
      double
        x1,
        y1,
        x2,
        y2;
    } SegmentInfo;

SignatureInfo

    typedef struct _SignatureInfo
    {
      unsigned long
        digest[8],
        low_order,
        high_order;

      long
        offset;

      unsigned char
        message[SignatureSize];
    } SignatureInfo;

StorageType

    typedef enum
    {
      CharPixel,
      ShortPixel,
      IntegerPixel,
      LongPixel,
      FloatPixel,
      DoublePixel
    } StorageType;

StreamHandler

    typedef unsigned int
      (*StreamHandler)(const Image *,const void *,const size_t);

StretchType

    typedef enum
    {
      NormalStretch,
      UltraCondensedStretch,
      ExtraCondensedStretch,
      CondensedStretch,
      SemiCondensedStretch,
      SemiExpandedStretch,
      ExpandedStretch,
      ExtraExpandedStretch,
      UltraExpandedStretch,
      AnyStretch
    } StretchType;

StyleType

    typedef enum
    {
      NormalStyle,
      ItalicStyle,
      ObliqueStyle,
      AnyStyle
    } StyleType;

TypeMetric

    typedef struct _TypeMetric
    {
      PointInfo
        pixels_per_em;

      double
        ascent,
        descent,
        width,
        height,
        max_advance;

      SegmentInfo
        bounds;

      double
        underline_position,
        underline_thickness;
    } TypeMetric;

ViewInfo

    typedef struct _ViewInfo
    {
      Image
        *image;

      unsigned long
        id;

      unsigned long
        signature;
    } ViewInfo;

VirtualPixelMethod

    typedef enum
    {
      UndefinedVirtualPixelMethod,
      ConstantVirtualPixelMethod,
      EdgeVirtualPixelMethod,
      MirrorVirtualPixelMethod,
      TileVirtualPixelMethod
    } VirtualPixelMethod;

XResourceInfo

    typedef struct _XResourceInfo
    {
      XrmDatabase
        resource_database;

      ImageInfo
        *image_info;

      QuantizeInfo
        *quantize_info;

      unsigned long
        colors;

      unsigned int
        close_server,
        backdrop;

      char
        *background_color,
        *border_color;

      char
        *client_name;

      XColormapType
        colormap;

      unsigned int
        border_width,
        color_recovery,
        confirm_exit,
        delay;

      char
        *display_gamma;

      char
        *font,
        *font_name[MaxNumberFonts],
        *foreground_color;

      unsigned int
        display_warnings,
        gamma_correct;

      char
        *icon_geometry;

      unsigned int
        iconic,
        immutable;

      char
        *image_geometry;

      char
        *map_type,
        *matte_color,
        *name;

      unsigned int
        magnify,
        pause;  char
        *pen_colors[MaxNumberPens];

      char
        *text_font,
        *title;

      int
        quantum;

      unsigned int
        update,
        use_pixmap,
        use_shared_memory;

      unsigned long
        undo_cache;

      char
        *visual_type,
        *window_group,
        *window_id,
        *write_filename;

      Image
        *copy_image;

      int
        gravity;

      char
        home_directory[MaxTextExtent];
    } XResourceInfo;

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