WARNING: Conjure and MSL are in very early development and the syntax is subject to change!

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Magick Scripting Language

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conjure [ options ] script.msl imagefiles

The Magick scripting language (MSL) will primarily benefit those that want to accomplish custom image processing tasks but do not wish to program, or those that do not have access to a Perl interpreter or a compiler. The interpreter is called conjure and here is an example script:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <image size="400x400" >
      <read filename="image.gif" />
      <get width="base-width" height="base-height" />
      <resize geometry="%[dimensions]" />
      <get width="width" height="height" />
      <print output=
        "Image sized from %[base-width]x%[base-height]
         to %[width]x%[height].\n" />
      <write filename="image.png" />
    </image>

invoked with

    conjure -dimensions 400x400 incantation.msl

All operations will closely follow the key/value pairs defined in PerlMagick, unless otherwise noted.

Conjure is in the early stages of development as of December 2001.

This early announcement is to allow ImageMagick users to contribute ideas early in the process so when the scripting language is released it will be useful/stable from the get-go! If you want to contribute suggestions about the Magick scripting langauge (MSL), post them to magick-developers@imagemagick.org.

Options are processed in command line order. Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect until it is explicitly changed by specifying the option again with a different effect, or if it is changed by a statement in the scripting language.

You can define your own keyword/value pairs on the command line. The script can then use this information when setting values by including %[keyword] in the string. For example, if you included "-dimensions 400x400" on the command line, as illustrated above, then any string containing "%[dimensions]" would have 400x400 substituted. This can be either an entire string, such as geometry="%[dimensions]" or part of a string such as filename="%[basename].png".

-debug

-help

-verbose

<image>

Define a new image object. </image> destroys it. Because of this, if you wish to reference multiple "subimages" (aka pages or layers), you can embed one image element inside of another. For example:

    <image>
    <read filename="input.png" />
    <get width="base-width" height="base-height" />
    <image height="base-height" width="base-width">
    <label>this is a simple label<label/>
    <image />
    <write filename="output.mng" />
    </image>

    <image size="400x400" />

<group>

Define a new group of image objects. By default, images are only valid for the life of their <image>element.

    <image>   -- creates the image
    .....     -- do stuff with it
    </image>  -- dispose of the image

However, in a group, all images in that group will stay around for the life of the group:

    <group>                           -- start a group
        <image>                       -- create an image
        ....                          -- do stuff
        </image>                      -- NOOP
        <image>                       -- create another image
        ....                          -- do more stuff
        </image>                      -- NOOP
        <write filename="image.mng" />  -- output
    </group>                          -- dispose of both images

<read>

Read a new image from a disk file.

    <read filename="image.gif" />

To read two images use

    <read filename="image.gif" />
    <read filename="image.png />

<write>

Write the image(s) to disk, either as a single multiple-image file or multiple ones if necessary.

     <write filename=image.tiff" />

<get>

Get any attribute recognized by PerlMagick's GetAttribute() and stores it as an image attribute for later use. Currently only <em>width</em> and <em>height</em> are supported.

    <get width="base-width" height="base-height" />
    <print output="Image size is %[base-width]x%[base-height].\n" />

<border>

fill, geometry, height, width

<blur>

radius, sigma

<charcoal>

radius, sigma

<chop>

geometry, height, width, x, y

<crop>

geometry, height, width, x, y

<despeckle>

<emboss>

radius, sigma

<enhance>

<equalize>

<flip>

<flop>

<frame>

fill, geometry, height, width, x, y, inner, outer

<get>

<image>

<magnify>

<minify>

<normalize>

<print>

output

<read>

<resize>

blur, filter, height, width

<roll>

geometry, x, y

<rotate>

degrees

<sample>

geometry, height, width

<scale>

geometry, height, width

<sharpen>

radius, sigma

<shave>

geometry, height, width

<shear>

x, y

<solarize>

threshold

<spread>

radius

<swirl>

degrees

<threshold>

threshold

<trim>