Description of problem: The option to set the delay between frames when creating an animated gif does not work properly in the convert command. For example, I have 3 gif images: test01.gif, test02.gif and test03.gif. If I try to make a pair of animated gifs out of them as follows: convert test??.gif -delay 200 -coalesce anim1.gif convert test??.gif -delay 1000 -coalesce anim2.gif The two results are identical and the time between frames is the default - i.e. it appears that -delay has no effect. I tried the same commands on a Redhat 9 machine running ImageMagick-5.4.7-18.legacy and the operation worked correctly - the delay between frames was slower and differed between images. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ImageMagick-6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Get a few .gif frames together 2.Try to combine them into an animated gif with different delays using the -delay option to convert 3.View them in firefox Actual results: Delay unaffected by settings. Expected results: Delay should be according to setting. Additional info:
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Short intro: I'm a new co-maintainer of ImageMagick and as such walking through all open bugs. I can still reproduce this bug with the current rawhide version of ImageMagick. I'll send a notice about this upstream.
Here is upstreams reaction: -------------------------- > he option to set the delay between frames when creating an animated gif does > > not work properly Command line order is important. The delay option is a setting, not an operator: convert -delay 200 test??.gif -coalesce anim1.gif convert -delay 1000 test??.gif -coalesce anim2.gif See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#why for a discussion on why the ImageMagick command line style changed from ImageMagick 5 to ImageMagick 6. ------------------------ And I can confirm that using the upstream provided invocation fixes this, closing.