Imagemagick with TIFF support – “no decode delegate for this image format”

I’ve been loving using Mac Terminal but I’d being having problem using ImageMagick with TIFFs.

I couldn’t get past : “no decode delegate for this image format” . I tried far too many overly-complex possibilities, and it was becoming a real time-suck so while this is a short post it took me far too much time to find this solution:

$ brew uninstall imagemagick

 

$ brew install libtiff

 

$ brew install imagemagick –with-libtiff

$ brew install imagemagick –build-from-source

 

Then to confirm it has worked:

$ convert -list configure

and check the DELEGATES list I now see:

DELEGATES      bzlib freetype jng jp2 jpeg png tiff xml zlib

(I gather a similar approach may work for Graphics Magick too)

Yet again, it was Stack Overflow which provided the eventual solution :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9586048/imagemagick-no-decode-delegate