display-im7.q16hdri(1)

💖 display-im7.q16hdri — bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick, this page lives in the General Commands Manual section, and the program is display-im7.q16hdri. Yes the name is a whole mouthful, we don't talk about it. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

display — shows an image or an image sequence on literally any X server. no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

magick-im7.q16hdri display [options] input-file

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👑 OVERVIEW 👑

So display-im7.q16hdri is a member of the ImageMagick-ims7.q16hdri(1) suite of tools, periodt. You use it to put an image (or a whole sequence of images, slay) up on any X server. 💅

If you want the full lore about the display command, go point your browser at:

file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-7-common/html/www/display.html

(on debian you might need to install the imagemagick-7 package first, fyi) or hit up https://www.imagemagick.org/script/display.php. iykyk 🌈

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

💜 Image Settings 💜

these are the settings that shape how your image comes out, and there are A LOT of them, so buckle up bestie:

• -alpha option — it's giving... on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy transparent, extract, background, or shape. pick your fighter 🎀
• -antialias — removes that pixel-aliasing, we love a smooth edge
• -authenticate value — decrypts the image with this password (secretive, mysterious, main character energy 🔥)
• -backdrop — displays the image centered on a backdrop
• -colormap type — either Shared or Private
• -colorspace type — an alternate image colorspace
• -comment string — annotates the image with a comment
• -compress type — the type of pixel compression used when writing the image
• -decipher filename — converts cipher pixels into plain pixels
• -deskew threshold — straightens an image out (it's giving chiropractor)
• -define format:option — define one or more image format options
• -delay centiseconds — displays the next image after pausing
• -density geometry — the horizontal and vertical density of the image
• -depth value — the image depth
• -display server — displays the image to this X server
• -dispose method — the layer disposal method
• -dither method — applies error diffusion to the image
• -endian type — the endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image
• -equalize — performs histogram equalization on an image
• -filter type — use this filter when resizing an image
• -format "string" — outputs formatted image characteristics
• -fuzz distance — colors within this distance get treated as equal
• -geometry geometry — the preferred size and location of the Image window
• -gravity type — the horizontal and vertical backdrop placement
• -identify — identifies the format and characteristics of the image
• -immutable — the displayed image cannot be modified (it's frozen, bestie 🧊)
• -interlace type — the type of image interlacing scheme
• -interpolate method — the pixel color interpolation method
• -label string — assigns a label to an image
• -limit type value — a pixel cache resource limit
• -loop iterations — loops the images then exits
• -map type — displays the image using this Standard Colormap
• -matte — stores the matte channel if the image has one
• -monitor — monitors progress
• -page geometry — the size and location of an image canvas
• -profile filename — adds, deletes, or applies an image profile
• -quality value — the JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
• -quantize colorspace — reduces colors in this colorspace
• -quiet — suppresses all warning messages 🤫
• -regard-warnings — pays attention to warning messages (the opposite of quiet, we love duality)
• -remote command — executes a command in a remote display process
• -repage geometry — the size and location of an image canvas (operator)
• -respect-parentheses — settings remain in effect until a parenthesis boundary
• -sampling-factor geometry — the horizontal and vertical sampling factor
• -scenes range — the image scene range
• -seed value — seeds a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers 🎲
• -set property value — sets an image property
• -size geometry — the width and height of the image
• -support factor — resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
• -texture filename — the name of the texture to tile onto the image background
• -transparent-color color — the transparent color
• -treedepth value — the color tree depth
• -update seconds — detects when the image file is modified and redisplays it
• -verbose — prints detailed information about the image
• -visual type — displays the image using this visual type
• -virtual-pixel method — the virtual pixel access method
• -window id — displays the image to the background of this window
• -window-group id — exits the program when this window id is destroyed
• -write filename — writes the image to a file

🎀 Image Operators 🎀

these ones actually DO stuff to your image:

• -auto-orient — automatically orients the image
• -border geometry — surrounds the image with a border of color
• -channel mask — sets the image channel mask
• -clip — clips along the first path from the 8BIM profile
• -clip-path id — clips along a named path from the 8BIM profile
• -colors value — the preferred number of colors in the image
• -contrast — enhances or reduces the image contrast
• -crop geometry — the preferred size and location of the cropped image
• -despeckle — reduces the speckles within an image
• -edge factor — applies a filter to detect edges in the image
• -enhance — applies a digital filter to enhance a noisy image
• -extent geometry — sets the image size
• -extract geometry — extracts an area from the image
• -flip — flips the image in the vertical direction
• -flop — flops the image in the horizontal direction
• -frame geometry — surrounds the image with an ornamental border
• -gamma value — the level of gamma correction
• -monochrome — transforms the image to black and white
• -negate — replaces each pixel with its complementary color
• -normalize — transforms the image to span the full range of colors
• -raise value — lightens/darkens image edges to create a 3-D effect
• -resample geometry — changes the resolution of an image
• -resize geometry — resizes the image
• -roll geometry — rolls an image vertically or horizontally
• -rotate degrees — applies Paeth rotation to the image
• -sample geometry — scales the image with pixel sampling
• -segment value — segments an image
• -sharpen geometry — sharpens the image
• -strip — strips the image of all profiles and comments
• -threshold value — thresholds the image
• -thumbnail geometry — creates a thumbnail of the image
• -trim — trims image edges

🌈 Image Sequence Operators 🌈

for when you've got a whole squad of images:

• -coalesce — merges a sequence of images
• -flatten — flattens a sequence of images

⭐ Miscellaneous Options ⭐

• -debug events — displays copious debugging information
• -help — prints the program options
• -log format — the format of debugging information
• -list type — prints a list of supported option arguments
• -version — prints version information

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Also, on top of all of the above, you can pass these standard X resources as command line options, iconic behavior honestly: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -foreground, -iconGeometry, -iconic, -mattecolor, -name, -shared-memory, -usePixmap, or -title.

By default, the image format of file is figured out by its magic number 🔮. If you wanna force a specific image format, put an image format name and a colon in front of the filename (i.e. ps:image), or just name the file with the image type as its suffix (i.e. image.ps). And if you want to use standard input or output, just specify 'file' as '-'. simple as that 💅

🖱️ Buttons 🖱️

• 1 — press to map or unmap the Command widget
• 2 — press and drag to magnify a region of an image
• 3 — press to load an image from a visual image directory

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🙈 NOTE 🙈

Heads up bestie, the display program defaults to the X screen resolution. So if you're displaying vector formats and you want them at their intended size, you gotta override that default resolution:

display -density 72 drawing.svg

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ImageMagick-im7.q16hdri(1)

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💀 COPYRIGHT 💀

Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-7-common/html/www/license.html (on debian you may install the imagemagick-7 package) or https://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! brought to you by ImageMagick, dated 2009/01/10 01:00:00 🫶 go display something gorgeous ✨💖