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<B><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff">GraphicsMagick
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<P><I>GraphicsMagick</I> provides a powerful command line utility
which may be used to access all <I>GraphicsMagick</I> functions. Gm
uses a consistent set of options (<A HREF="GraphicsMagick.html">see
options documentation</A>). <I>GraphicsMagick</I> provides access to
major command modes via a single executable command-line program
called '<B>gm</B>'; for example, to use the "convert" mode,
type "gm convert ...". The available command modes and
links to their documentation are shown in the following table:</P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="animate.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
animate</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>animate
a sequence of images</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="composite.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
composite</SPAN></A></P>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>composite
images together</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="conjure.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
conjure</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>execute
a Magick Scripting Language (MSL) XML script</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="convert.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
convert</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>convert
an image or sequence of images</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="display.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
display</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>display
an image on a workstation running X</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="identify.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
identify</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>describe
an image or image sequence</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="import.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
import</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>capture
an application or X server screen</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="mogrify.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
mogrify</SPAN></A></P>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>transform
an image or sequence of images</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="montage.html"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">gm
montage</SPAN></A></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
<FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>create
a composite image (in a grid) from separate images</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The
gm utility makes it easy to perform complex image processing
operations using a single command. It may be invoked from scripts, or
from other programs in order to automate the processing of thousands
of images.</FONT></FONT></P>
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