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Converting tif image white background to transparent png file format using image magick

venkat2022 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:31:21 GMT

I am trying to convert white color backgrounded tif image type to transparent background png image type using below image magick command in alfresco 5.1.> magick convert source_file.tif -fuzz 20% -transparent white converted_file.pngBut the above command is not working for all images. For many of

Re: Converting tif image white background to transparent png file format using image magick

mehe — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:16:19 GMT

I think there are too much different possibilities to pack bitmaps in tiff images. Your conversion will only work, if it is possible to identify the "background" - for example in layered tiffs.

your conversion will try to use white als transparent Color, Even if it's not the background.

Re: Converting tif image white background to transparent png file format using image magick

venkat2022 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 07:42:39 GMT

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your reply . if you see the attached source file in my previous post, i hope the image background is white only . I have same kind of tiff images which i need to convert . Can you suggest what else we can do here better