identify(1)						      General Commands Manual						       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 number 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-6.3.4/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, Module,
			      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
	 -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 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).  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-6.3.4/www/license.php or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWimagick     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | External	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for ImageMagick is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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