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Covert ICNS to image file formats using sips
Authored by: gaoshan on Jan 03, '06 10:15:04AM

I was going to add this reply saying that you could also do this with Imagemagick (my favorite command line image manipulator) however, you can't!

So... you CAN'T use Imagemagick to do this. Good to know. I used to think of sips as a weak image manipulator that I had no use for. You've proven me wrong.

Thanks!



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sips vs. imagemagick
Authored by: efc on Jan 03, '06 10:04:46PM
I've used both sips and imagemagick on a PowerMac G5. In addition to the undocumented feature mentioned in this hint, it is worth noting that in my work I've found sips to be at least 5 times faster than imagemagick. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that sips is using the Velocity engine in a way imagemagick (or at least the binary I had of it) does not.

True, imagemagick has more features than sips. But if sips can do the job and you have a lot of bulk work to get done, it can save a load of time.

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