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<h1>Module property Methods</h1>
<p class="navigation-index">[<a href="property.html#CloneImageProperties">CloneImageProperties</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#DefineImageProperty">DefineImageProperty</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#DeleteImageProperty">DeleteImageProperty</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#DestroyImageProperties">DestroyImageProperties</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#FormatImageProperty">FormatImageProperty</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#GetImageProperty">GetImageProperty</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#GetNextImageProperty">GetNextImageProperty</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#InterpretImageProperties">InterpretImageProperties</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#RemoveImageProperty">RemoveImageProperty</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#ResetImagePropertyIterator">ResetImagePropertyIterator</a> &bull; <a href="property.html#SetImageProperty">SetImageProperty</a>]</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="CloneImageProperties">CloneImageProperties</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>CloneImageProperties() clones one or more image properties.</p>
<p>The format of the CloneImageProperties method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
MagickBooleanType CloneImageProperties(Image *image,
const Image *clone_image)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>clone_image</h5>
<p>the clone image.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="DefineImageProperty">DefineImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>DefineImageProperty() associates a key/value pair with an image property.</p>
<p>The format of the DefineImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
MagickBooleanType DefineImageProperty(Image *image,
const char *property)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>property</h5>
<p>the image property.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="DeleteImageProperty">DeleteImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>DeleteImageProperty() deletes an image property.</p>
<p>The format of the DeleteImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
MagickBooleanType DeleteImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>property</h5>
<p>the image property.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="DestroyImageProperties">DestroyImageProperties</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>DestroyImageProperties() releases memory associated with image property values.</p>
<p>The format of the DestroyDefines method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
void DestroyImageProperties(Image *image)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="FormatImageProperty">FormatImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>FormatImageProperty() permits formatted property/value pairs to be saved as an image property.</p>
<p>The format of the FormatImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
MagickBooleanType FormatImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property,
const char *format,...)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows.</p>
<h5> image</h5>
<p>The image.</p>
<h5> property</h5>
<p>The attribute property.</p>
<h5> format</h5>
<p>A string describing the format to use to write the remaining arguments.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="GetImageProperty">GetImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>GetImageProperty() gets a value associated with an image property.</p>
<p>The format of the GetImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
const char *GetImageProperty(const Image *image,const char *key)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>key</h5>
<p>the key.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="GetNextImageProperty">GetNextImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>GetNextImageProperty() gets the next free-form string property name.</p>
<p>The format of the GetNextImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
char *GetNextImageProperty(const Image *image)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="InterpretImageProperties">InterpretImageProperties</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>InterpretImageProperties() replaces any embedded formatting characters with the appropriate image property and returns the interpreted text.</p>
<p>This searches for and replaces \n \r \ replaced by newline, return, and percent resp. &lt; &gt; &amp; replaced by '<', '>', '&' resp. replaced by percent</p>
<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>
<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>
<p>The returned string must be freed using DestoryString().</p>
<p>The format of the InterpretImageProperties method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
char *InterpretImageProperties(const ImageInfo *image_info,Image *image,
const char *embed_text)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image_info</h5>
<p>the image info.</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>embed_text</h5>
<p>the address of a character string containing the embedded formatting characters.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="RemoveImageProperty">RemoveImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>RemoveImageProperty() removes a property from the image and returns its value.</p>
<p>The format of the RemoveImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
char *RemoveImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>property</h5>
<p>the image property.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="ResetImagePropertyIterator">ResetImagePropertyIterator</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<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>
<p>The format of the ResetImagePropertyIterator method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
ResetImagePropertyIterator(Image *image)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
</div>
<h2><a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/property_8c.html" id="SetImageProperty">SetImageProperty</a></h2>
<div class="doc-section">
<p>SetImageProperty() saves the given string value either to specific known attribute or to a freeform property string.</p>
<p>The format of the SetImageProperty method is:</p>
<pre class="code">
MagickBooleanType SetImageProperty(Image *image,const char *property,
const char *value)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<h5>image</h5>
<p>the image.</p>
<h5>property</h5>
<p>the image property.</p>
<h5>values</h5>
<p>the image property values.</p>
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