If you die or warn when failing to open the image, you'll get much better diagnostics. The error message you have suggests that fh IMAGE is not being set to anything useful:

      open IMAGE, "< $picture" or die $!;

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will holler as soon as it sees that your file doesn't open. The message will tell you, more or less, what is lacking. I suspect that either file permissions are wrong, or paths are relative to the wrong directory.

To live by: Always Check Status of System Interfaces After Use.

Update: On the error checking and operator precedence issue, you could replace '||' in your $image->Read() statement with &&, but that form is confusing to most people. merlyn's two statement form is more readable to programmers without a strong background. in C.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Image::Magick resize question by Zaxo
in thread Image::Magick resize question by emilford

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