[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#526185: command-line-processing.php has got it backwards

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: imagemagick-doc
Version: 7:6.5.1.0-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/command-line-processing.html

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/contact.php
says to use it so submit bugs, but then when one presses send, one gets

Your message was sent. Expect a reply within 24-48 hours if your
message is on the list of approved topics. For all other topics, post
your message to the discourse server, cafe, or mailing list.

Where probably the same will happen. So instead sending this to the
trusty Debian BTS.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php has got
it backwards. Please make these changes:

@@ -319,2 +319,2 @@
-widthxheight>     Change as per widthxheight but only if an image dimension is exceeded by a specified dimension.
-widthxheight<     Change dimensions only if both specified dimensions exceed image dimensions.
+widthxheight>     Change as per widthxheight but only if an image dimension exceeds a specified dimension.
+widthxheight<     Change dimensions only if both image dimensions exceed specified dimensions.
@@ -393,3 +393,3 @@
-Use > to change the dimensions of the image only if the original width or height is exeeded by one of the geometry
-specifications. Use < to resize the image only if both of the original dimensions are less than the geometry
-specifications. In either case, if a change is made, the result is as if the > or > operator was not present. So, in the
+Use > to change the dimensions of the image only if the original width or height exceeds one of the geometry
+specifications. Use < to resize the image only if both of the original dimensions are more than the geometry
+specifications. In either case, if a change is made, the result is as if the > or < operator was not present. So, in the

Also note that even if the there is nothing exceeded,
$ convert -resize 'widthxheight>' file newfile
will create newfile, the same as oldfile, but slightly bigger in
number of bytes.

Also there is no option to say 'make me an image at least this large',
only 'at least this small'.

Some other items I would like to submit as imagemagick bugs:

$ identify -verbose: no mention of thumbnails.
convert: no way to remove just the thumbnail, like jhead -dt. Only can
use -strip.