ImageMagick

Good tools, awful documentation

    by denilsonsa

I guess basically all advanced users have used one of the imagemagick tools at least a few times (convert, identify, import, display...), and I guess all of them share the same feeling: the tool is great and very powerful, but lacks a good documentation.

Anyone who has ever tried to seriously use 'convert' has undoubtly spent a lot of time trying to find *some* documentation. Eventually, a tutorial page is found via Google, but the ... [More] example in that tutorial might not work (probably because that tutorial is outdated). Some time later, finally the official documentation at ImageMagick's site is found, but it doesn't mean this documentation is easy to use.

Eventually, people either learn a 'magick' obscure command-line that does the trick, or they just stop wasting time trying to figure out how to use 'convert' and do what they need using any other software. [Less]

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