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223 <h1>Module property Methods</h1>
224 <p class="navigation-index">[<a href="property.html#CloneImageProperties">CloneImageProperties</a> • <a href="property.html#DefineImageProperty">DefineImageProperty</a> • <a href="property.html#DeleteImageProperty">DeleteImageProperty</a> • <a href="property.html#DestroyImageProperties">DestroyImageProperties</a> • <a href="property.html#FormatImageProperty">FormatImageProperty</a> • <a href="property.html#GetImageProperty">GetImageProperty</a> • <a href="property.html#GetNextImageProperty">GetNextImageProperty</a> • <a href="property.html#InterpretImageProperties">InterpretImageProperties</a> • <a href="property.html#RemoveImageProperty">RemoveImageProperty</a> • <a href="property.html#ResetImagePropertyIterator">ResetImagePropertyIterator</a> • <a href="property.html#SetImageProperty">SetImageProperty</a>]</p>
226 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="CloneImageProperties">CloneImageProperties</a></h2>
227 <div class="doc-section">
229 <p>CloneImageProperties() clones one or more image properties.</p>
231 <p>The format of the CloneImageProperties method is:</p>
234 MagickBooleanType CloneImageProperties(Image *image,
235 const Image *clone_image)
238 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
244 <p>the clone image.</p>
247 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="DefineImageProperty">DefineImageProperty</a></h2>
248 <div class="doc-section">
250 <p>DefineImageProperty() associates a key/value pair with an image property.</p>
252 <p>The format of the DefineImageProperty method is:</p>
255 MagickBooleanType DefineImageProperty(Image *image,
256 const char *property)
259 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
265 <p>the image property.</p>
268 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="DeleteImageProperty">DeleteImageProperty</a></h2>
269 <div class="doc-section">
271 <p>DeleteImageProperty() deletes an image property.</p>
273 <p>The format of the DeleteImageProperty method is:</p>
276 MagickBooleanType DeleteImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property)
279 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
285 <p>the image property.</p>
288 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="DestroyImageProperties">DestroyImageProperties</a></h2>
289 <div class="doc-section">
291 <p>DestroyImageProperties() releases memory associated with image property values.</p>
293 <p>The format of the DestroyDefines method is:</p>
296 void DestroyImageProperties(Image *image)
299 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
305 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="FormatImageProperty">FormatImageProperty</a></h2>
306 <div class="doc-section">
308 <p>FormatImageProperty() permits formatted property/value pairs to be saved as an image property.</p>
310 <p>The format of the FormatImageProperty method is:</p>
313 MagickBooleanType FormatImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property,
314 const char *format,...)
317 <p>A description of each parameter follows.</p>
323 <p>The attribute property.</p>
326 <p>A string describing the format to use to write the remaining arguments.</p>
329 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="GetImageProperty">GetImageProperty</a></h2>
330 <div class="doc-section">
332 <p>GetImageProperty() gets a value associated with an image property.</p>
334 <p>The format of the GetImageProperty method is:</p>
337 const char *GetImageProperty(const Image *image,const char *key)
340 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
349 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="GetNextImageProperty">GetNextImageProperty</a></h2>
350 <div class="doc-section">
352 <p>GetNextImageProperty() gets the next free-form string property name.</p>
354 <p>The format of the GetNextImageProperty method is:</p>
357 char *GetNextImageProperty(const Image *image)
360 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
366 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="InterpretImageProperties">InterpretImageProperties</a></h2>
367 <div class="doc-section">
369 <p>InterpretImageProperties() replaces any embedded formatting characters with the appropriate image property and returns the interpreted text.</p>
371 <p>This searches for and replaces \n \r \ replaced by newline, return, and percent resp. < > & replaced by '<', '>', '&' resp. replaced by percent</p>
373 <p>x where 'x' is a single letter, case sensitive). [type:name] where 'type' is specifically known prefix. [name] where 'name' is a specifically known attribute, calculated value, or a per-image property string name, or a per-image 'artifact' (as generated from a global option)</p>
375 <p>If 'glob-expresions' ('*' or '?' characters) is used for 'name' it may be used as a search pattern to print multiple lines of "name=value\n" pairs of the associacted set of properities.</p>
377 <p>The returned string must be freed using DestoryString().</p>
379 <p>The format of the InterpretImageProperties method is:</p>
382 char *InterpretImageProperties(const ImageInfo *image_info,Image *image,
383 const char *embed_text)
386 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
389 <p>the image info.</p>
395 <p>the address of a character string containing the embedded formatting characters.</p>
398 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="RemoveImageProperty">RemoveImageProperty</a></h2>
399 <div class="doc-section">
401 <p>RemoveImageProperty() removes a property from the image and returns its value.</p>
403 <p>The format of the RemoveImageProperty method is:</p>
406 char *RemoveImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property)
409 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
415 <p>the image property.</p>
418 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="ResetImagePropertyIterator">ResetImagePropertyIterator</a></h2>
419 <div class="doc-section">
421 <p>ResetImagePropertyIterator() resets the image properties iterator. Use it in conjunction with GetNextImageProperty() to iterate over all the values associated with an image property.</p>
423 <p>The format of the ResetImagePropertyIterator method is:</p>
426 ResetImagePropertyIterator(Image *image)
429 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
435 <h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="SetImageProperty">SetImageProperty</a></h2>
436 <div class="doc-section">
438 <p>SetImageProperty() saves the given string value either to specific known attribute or to a freeform property string.</p>
440 <p>The format of the SetImageProperty method is:</p>
443 MagickBooleanType SetImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property,
447 <p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
453 <p>the image property.</p>
456 <p>the image property values.</p>
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