imagemagick and multipage tiffs

bmichaelsen · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: imagemagick and multipage tiffs

Hi guys,
Im using imagemagick to merge a logo onto a tiff-file. Im using the compose command of imagemagick and it works fine for singlepage tiff files. However, on a multipage tiff there is a sideeffect: The pages are all merged ontop of each other. This is obviously not what I want. Is there a way to put a image on a single page of a multipage tiff, keeping it multipage?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Yours, Björn

P.S.: Right now, Im using:

gustafson · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 430

Why not split out the tiff pages into separate images, operate on the page of interest, and the append the pages back into a multi page tiff?

Try tiffsplit to split them, then convert --append to reassemble

bmichaelsen · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject:

Well, this also needs to work on win32 in an automated process. Adding libtiff and a multistep operation makes logging etc. much more complex.
Besides: Im pretty sure this is possible somehow directly with imagemagick ....

lyallp · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:31 am Post subject:

To manipulate a multi-page TIF image, for example, to delete a single page from a multi-page TIF.

Install ImageMagick (command line tools) and libtiff (also command line tools).

The following works on Windows as well as linux (gentoo packages are media-gfx/imagemagick and media-libs/tiff)

Execute the following Steps

mkdir <uniqueDirectoryName>
mv savedTiffImate.tiff <uniqueDirctoryName>\
cd <uniqueDirectoryName>
tiffsplit savedTiffImate.tiff # tiffsplit is a part of the media-libs/tiff package
del xa?.tif where xa?.tif is the image that requires deletion
convert -adjoin xa*.tif NewTifFilename.tif # convert is a part of ImageMagick)
Use the NewTifFilename.tif as appropriate

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