Re: imshow error - your version of GraphicsMagick limits images to 8 bits per pixel

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 12, 2014, at 4:05 PM, jairomarcel <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi guys. I'm having a problem to show an image that I'm getting as argument
> from the command line, I set the image filename to a variavel and then I
> read the image to a variable with imread() and then show the image with
> imshow() but I'm getting this message that is in the subject, I already saw
> in others forums that graphicsmagick should be build using this command
> .*/configure  --with-quantum-depth=16 --enable-shared --disable-static
> --with-magick-plus-plus=yes* , but it is already installed and if I try to
> unistall just graphicsmagick it will request to unistall all the files for
> octave, but there isn't a easier way to change the image limit, this
> configuration probably is set in any file, does anyone can help me with
> this?
> 
> Thanks for now.

How did you install Graphicsmagick?  Using some package manager I assume?

If you can tell us which one, someone familiar with it should be able to tell 
you have to replace "--with-quantum-depth=8" with "--with-quantum-depth=16" 
(I'm using --with-quantum-depth=32 without any problem).

Ben