identify

identify(1)							  identify(1)



NAME
       identify	 -  describes  the  format and characteristics of one or more
       image files.

SYNOPSIS
       identify [options] input-file

OVERVIEW
       The identify program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools.
       It  describes  the  format  and	characteristics	 of one or more image
       files. It also reports if an  image  is	incomplete  or	corrupt.  The
       information  returned  includes	the  image number, the file name, the
       width and height of the image, whether the  image  is  colormapped  or
       not,  the  number  of  colors in the image, the number of bytes in the
       image, the format of the image (JPEG, PNM, etc.), and finally the num-
       ber  of	seconds	 it  took  to  read  and process the image. Many more
       attributes are available with the verbose option.

       For more information about the identify command, point your browser to
       file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.6/www/identify.html	   or
       http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php.

DESCRIPTION
       Image Settings:
	 -antialias	      remove pixel-aliasing
	 -authenticate value  decrypt image with this password
	 -channel type	      apply option to select image channels
	 -crop geometry	      cut out a rectangular region of the image
	 -debug events	      display copious debugging information
	 -define format:option
			      define one or more image format options
	 -density geometry    horizontal and vertical density of the image
	 -depth value	      image depth
	 -extract geometry    extract area from image
	 -format "string"     output formatted image characteristics
	 -fuzz distance	      colors  within  this  distance  are  considered
       equal
	 -help		      print program options
	 -interlace type      type of image interlacing scheme
	 -interpolate method  pixel color interpolation method
	 -limit type value    pixel cache resource limit
	 -list type	      Color, Configure, Delegate, Format, Magic, Mod-
       ule,
			      Resource, or Type
	 -log format	      format of debugging information
	 -matte		      store matte channel if the image has one
	 -monitor	      monitor progress
	 -ping		      efficiently determine image attributes
	 -quiet		      suppress all warning messages
	 -regard-warnings     pay attention to warning messages
	 -sampling-factor geometry
			      horizontal and vertical sampling factor
	 -seed value	      seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
	 -set attribute value set an image attribute
	 -size geometry	      width and height of image
	 -strip		      strip image of all profiles and comments
	 -units type	      the units of image resolution
	 -verbose	      print detailed information about the image
	 -version	      print version information
	 -virtual-pixel method
			      virtual pixel access method

       By default, the image format of ‘file’ is determined by its magic num-
       ber.   To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with
       an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the	image
       type  as	 the  filename suffix (i.e. image.ps).	Specify ’file’ as ’-’
       for standard input or output.

SEE-ALSO
       ImageMagick(1)


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1999-2007 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional  copyrights
       and	licenses      apply	 to	 this	   software,	  see
       file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.6/www/license.php		   or
       http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php



ImageMagick		  Date: 2005/03/01 01:00:00		  identify(1)