GraphicsMagick has some commands that do not operate on files, but return information about its operation. I see several such commands in this section of the GraphicsMagick documentation:
gm supports these operations if the user understands how the underlying command will be built given chained arguments, but it's unintuitive to use. For example, to get the list of formats supported by GraphicsMagick with:
This is pretty good except for the use of gm('format'). I find this to be a confusing invocation since the argument to the constructor is usually a file path or Buffer. This command takes advantage of the fact that "format" appears in the location that the filename would appear, if it were a file. It would also be really confusing if a file named format was in the current working directory.
Would it be possible to support these -list functions in some kind of utilities export, or maybe with a different, no-argument constructor? Is there already support for something like this, and I've just missed it? I will volunteer myself to add such functions if the owners of the project think they're necessary.
GraphicsMagick has some commands that do not operate on files, but return information about its operation. I see several such commands in this section of the GraphicsMagick documentation:
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/GraphicsMagick.html#details-list
gmsupports these operations if the user understands how the underlying command will be built given chained arguments, but it's unintuitive to use. For example, to get the list of formats supported by GraphicsMagick with:the
gmuser would have to callThis is pretty good except for the use of
gm('format'). I find this to be a confusing invocation since the argument to the constructor is usually a file path or Buffer. This command takes advantage of the fact that "format" appears in the location that the filename would appear, if it were a file. It would also be really confusing if a file namedformatwas in the current working directory.Would it be possible to support these
-listfunctions in some kind of utilities export, or maybe with a different, no-argument constructor? Is there already support for something like this, and I've just missed it? I will volunteer myself to add such functions if the owners of the project think they're necessary.