Questions tagged [gif]
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Animating GIFs as previews in File Manager "LF" or "ranger"
The desired behavior: When I'm using a file manager "LF" I would like to have animated GIFs as previews when I am over an image/gif mime-type file.
What I actually had on mind was to convert ...
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How can one count how many pixels a GIF image has via command line?
I use Ubuntu. I have a large number of GIF images. How can one count how many pixels a GIF image has via command line?
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Merge a png on top of a gif with shell
I am trying to merge a png with a gif (put the png on top of the gif) and then have the result as a gif.
I played around with convert, but cannot quite get it to work the way I need it.
I have tried ...
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ImageMagick refused to convert the animated GIF and killed the process silently due to CPU
I tried with these solutions below, but unsuccessfully:
ImageMagick convert problem, command killed or silently exits
Using disk for processing of huge images
ImageMagick convert out of memory
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Why this GIF isn't playing smoothly?
in.gif (814KB)
in.jpg (1.03MB)
Commands i used to generate a gif -
convert -coalesce "in.gif" "0.png"
for file in 0*.png
do
composite -gravity center "$file" in....
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Create small high-quality GIF/APNG from a bunch of PNGs
I have 50 PNGs (like those ones here) and I would like to create a GIF (or APNG) animation from it that approximately retains the quality and is small.
What I'm doing so far is to rescale and throw ...
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How to get convert to not interpolate pixels?
I am using ImageMagick's convert to convert a bunch of .fits files (an image format used in astronomy) to an animated .gif. My astronomical images are pretty low resolution (150 x 300 pixels) but ...
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webp animation to gif animation (cli)
I was surprised today to find apparently how difficult it is to go from a webp animation to gif animation. My GIMP 2.8.22 and ImageMagick 7.0.7-21 on linux 4.14.13-1-ARCH don't seem to support the ...
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How to create a tiled gif (repeating the same small gif image in a tiled background)
I have a gif image with a rather low resolution (500x200 pixels) which I would like to use to tile a wallpaper background (size 1920x1080 etc.) showing the same frame (or a different frame) on all ...
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In XFCE, how do I set an animated GIF as a desktop background?
This should be a simple task, but I can't figure out a way to do this!
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ImageMagick: PNG to GIF: make any not completely transparent pixel solid
I'm trying to create a GIF animation from a set of transparent PNG images in various resolutions. When I -resize the edges are aliased. The background is probably quite predictable so I could make it ...
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Merge three .gif animations
I have 3 .gifs animations and I just want to merge them temporally.
Say
g1.gif contains images 1,2,3 sequenced as so
g2.gif contains images 4,5,6 sequenced as so
g3.gif contains images 7,8,9 ...
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`convert`ing *.gif to file.pdf hangs/freezes the system
I've 415 gif files in a directory and trying to make a single pdf of them by using the following command:
convert /path/to/*.gif file.pdf
But it cause for hanging/freezing of the entire system. In ...
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How to open a gif without loop repetition with oeg
I use to open .gif file with
eog -f myfile.gif
The gif animation is however running in loop.
What I want is to display the animation once and then quit.
How to avoid this?
Please also help in ...
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Identify (and delete) all .gif files with more than 1 frame in all subdirectories
I having the following linux command to identify all .gif files and list its frames in the active directory:
identify -format '%n %i\n' -- *.gif
Now I want to modify and expand the command to ...
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