stream(1)

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version 7.1.2.35 · 5 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 stream(1) — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for stream, part of the General Commands Manual crew. She's a lightweight queen and she's about to stream pixels straight to your heart. No cap. 🎀

✨ 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.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

magick stream [options] input-file output-file

🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

So stream is literally that girl: a lightweight tool that streams one or more pixel components of the image — or just a lil portion of the image — to whatever storage format you want. 💅

The way she works? She writes the pixel components as they are read from the input image, a row at a time. Which makes her desirable (fr fr) when you're working with huge images, or when you specifically need raw pixel components. She doesn't need the whole thing in memory first — she's not dramatic like that. 👑

Want more info about the stream command? Point your browser at:

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

🍓 Image Settings 🍓

  • -authenticate value — decrypt the image with this password. secretive. mysterious. main character energy. 🙈
  • -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. she's watching. 👀
  • -quantize colorspace — reduce colors in this colorspace.
  • -quiet — suppress all warning messages. shhh. not a peep. 💀
  • -regard-warnings — pay attention to warning messages. the opposite vibe of -quiet, bestie.
  • -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. messy era, but on purpose. ✨
  • -transparent-color color — transparent color.
  • -verbose — print detailed information about the image. she's a yapper and we love her.
  • -virtual-pixel method — virtual pixel access method.

🌈 Miscellaneous Options 🌈

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

🌟 the magic-number situation 🌟

By default, the image format of file is determined by its magic number. cute, right? 🧚

But if you wanna specify a particular image format, you can:

  • precede the filename with an image format name and a colon — like ps:image
  • or specify the image type as the filename suffix — like image.ps

And listen: specify file as - for standard input or standard output. that's the little dash bestie, don't sleep on it. 🩷

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ImageMagick(1)

Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see:

and that's the whole page, bestie ✨

This one comes to you from ImageMagick, dated 2009/01/10 01:00:00 — yeah she's an elder but she still ate. 🎀 stay streaming, stay iconic, periodt. 💖🦋💜

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