stream-im7.q16(1)

💖 stream-im7.q16 — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the stream page from the ImageMagick manual, section 1 (commands). grab a boba, this one's actually kinda iconic 🧋✨

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✨ NAME ✨

stream — a lightweight tool to stream one or more pixel components of the image or portion of the image to your choice of storage formats.

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

magick-im7.q16 stream [options] input-file output-file

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🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

okay so Stream is a lightweight tool that streams one or more pixel components of the image — or just a portion of the image — into whatever storage format you want. it writes the pixel components as they are read from the input image, a row at a time, which makes stream-im7.q16 genuinely desirable when you're working with big images or when you need raw pixel components. it's giving "I don't need the whole thing in memory, thanks" 💅

for more info about the stream command, point your browser to file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-7-common/html/www/stream.html (on a debian system you may install the imagemagick-7 package) or https://www.imagemagick.org/script/stream.php. 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

🎀 Image Settings 🎀

• -authenticate value — decrypt image with this password 🔐
• -colorspace type — alternate image colorspace
• -compress type — type of pixel compression when writing the image
• -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
• -identify — identify the format and characteristics of the image 🔍
• -interlace type — type of image interlacing scheme
• -interpolate method — pixel color interpolation method
• -limit type value — pixel cache resource limit
• -map components — one or more pixel components
• -monitor — monitor progress 👀
• -quantize colorspace — reduce colors in this colorspace
• -quiet — suppress all warning messages 🤫
• -regard-warnings — pay attention to warning messages
• -respect-parentheses — settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary
• -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
• -storage-type type — pixel storage type
• -synchronize — synchronize image to storage device
• -taint — declare the image as modified
• -transparent-color color — transparent color
• -verbose — print detailed information about the image 🗣️
• -virtual-pixel method — virtual pixel access method

🍓 Miscellaneous Options 🍓

• -channel mask — set the image channel mask
• -debug events — display copious debugging information 🐛
• -help — print program options
• -log format — format of debugging information
• -list type — print a list of supported option arguments
• -version — print version information

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by default, the image format of file is determined by its magic number ✨. 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). and yes, you can specify file as - for standard input or output. periodt. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ImageMagick-im7.q16(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 system you may install the imagemagick-7 package) or https://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🫶 this was ImageMagick, dated 2009/01/10 01:00:00, no cap. go stream something huge and raw. 💖✨🎀