[SOLVED] Trying to Launch Imagemagick

**Andavane** · April 23rd, 2008

I have been trying to launch the "ImageMagick" program.
The program is listed as installed in the synaptic package manager.
If I type "imagemagick" into a terminal I get the message:

andavane@andavane-desktop:~$ imagemagick
bash: imagemagick: command not found
andavane@andavane-desktop:~$

I have looked and found what I think is the program in

/usr/share/ImageMagick-6.2.4

I see there is a folder and two files.
I have put what I think is the correct file into the menu via alacarte but it won't run, as by this stage I am no longer understanding what I am doing.

The reason I am trying to use this is because I have a photo which I want to reduce to a thumbnail to use as a logo.

Thanks in advance for help.

Regards

John

**Andavane** · April 23rd, 2008

PS:
Googling my query generates items with script which I simply do not understand.
Regards
John

**markjensen** · April 23rd, 2008

Try typing mogrify into your terminal.

**.nedberg** · April 23rd, 2008

Imagemagick is not a gui program, but programs you can run from the command line.

convert
compose
mogrify

are some of the commands I remember. Have a look at imagemagick.org if you want to learn more.

I you want a gui program try Gimp or Krita

**Can+~** · April 23rd, 2008

Please refer to the manual

Code:

man imagemagick

**gug@fnal.gov** · April 23rd, 2008

Hi,
There should be one gui application that comes with imagemagic, at least in the rpm distro there is (I am not at my Ubuntu machine at the moment). The application is called "display".

bash$ display &

**.nedberg** · April 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by gug@fnal.gov

Hi,
There should be one gui application that comes with imagemagic, at least in the rpm distro there is (I am not at my Ubuntu machine at the moment). The application is called "display".

bash$ display &

Hum, I didn't know about that one. It is in Ubuntu too, but it wasn't as easy to use as Gimp. I would still prefer Gimp if I should make a thumbnail from one image. If I were to make thumbs from several images then I would use imagemagick.Imagemagick is great for scripts and batch processing of images. I use it a lot for my Amarok script (see sig).