Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thank you so much for your help. The documentation on escapes begins to make more sense with your example before me. I eventually ended up with

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/convert bigimage.jpg -crop 256x256 \
-set filename:tile "%[fx:page.x/256+1001]_%[fx:page.y/256+1001]" \
+repage +adjoin "tiled ...

I'm working with largish images (up to 12000x12000 pixels) and want to break them up into tiles. I've been using:

convert -crop 256x256 bigimage.jpg tiled_%06d.jpg
which does the job fine. But while the tile names contain sequence numbers, it would be very convenient if the names indicated the ...