Re: ImageMagick identify "d:" hangs

[Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen () simple dallas tx us>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> (/etc/passwd) /dumpname load 256 string filenameforall
> $ convert test.gif png:test.png
> <creates a file called test.png containing first line of /etc/passwd>
>
> Also seems to work with gm convert.

It is good that you did not single out just one using program.

This issue seems to afflict any program which invokes Ghostscript in 
general and not just *Magick.  However, 'convert' does offer to write 
a rendered result to an output file.

Bob
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