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We'll keep the exiting exit status for all ImageMagick utilities except the compare utility. For it, we will return the same exit status as grep. That is if the images are similar and no errors, return 0. If the images are dissimilar and no errors, return 1. If an error occurs, return 1. I don't un...

The exit code is 0 if the ImageMagick command -line utility completes without any error exceptions. The compare utility returns an exception if two images are not similar. Really? If I compare two completely different images, I get an exception and an exit code of 1: Eric-MacBook-Pro:temp eric$ com...

I think you should report the problem to im4java so they can change their code. There is no option available to force the exit code to zero and we should probably also not add such an obscure feature. Fair enough - will look at Im4Java to work my way around this. However, just to play devil's advoc...

Makes sense to have this feature. We'll add it to the next release of IM. Thanks. I'm using ImageMagick 6.8.6-6 2013-08-31 Q16 on a Mac OSX installed using MacPorts. It appears that this feature is already present. Is there any way to disable this and have it still return 0 since it actually comple...

I'm trying to use the CompareCmd from im4java. When I try it with 2 identical images, the command works properly. When I try with 2 different images (same dimensions), I get an NPE. However, if I output the command to a script using cmd.createScript(), and run the script, it executes properly. Is th...