identify describes the format and characteristics of one or
more image files. It will also report if an image is
incomplete or corrupt. The information displayed includes
the scene number, the file name, the width and height of the
image, whether the image is colormapped or not, the number
of colors in the image, the number of bytes in the image,
the format of the image (JPEG, PNM, etc.), and finally the
number of seconds it took to read and process the image. An
example line output from identify follows:
This information is printed: image name; the image class
(DirectClass or PseudoClass); the total number of unique
colors; whether there is a matte associated with the image; the number
of runlength packets; the image size; the depth of the image; the image
format; the image scene; and finally any image comment. Refer to
miff for a description of the image class.
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