Image.transform does not preserve animations

[pthimon]

It's expected that the transform does the same as the resize, however the animation is lost when using transform.

with Image(filename='original.gif') as img:
    #img.resize(50,50)
    img.transform(resize='50x50')
    img.save(filename='converted.gif')

I had a look at Image.transform, and it looks like new_wand is being used as the source and the destination. In the code below, I've placed the result of the transformed image into a new resized_wand image and it appears to work, although I am unsure whether new_wand gets destroyed correctly.

# wand/image.py L:1405
if self.animation:
        resized_wand = None
        new_wand = library.MagickCoalesceImages(self.wand)
        length = len(self.sequence)
        for i in xrange(length):
            library.MagickSetIteratorIndex(new_wand, i)
            if i:
                library.MagickAddImage(resized_wand, library.MagickTransformImage(new_wand, crop, resize))
            else:
                resized_wand = library.MagickTransformImage(new_wand,crop,resize)
        self.sequence.instances = []
        self.wand = resized_wand

[pthimon]

In addition, as transform also supports cropping, it is useful to do a MagickResetImagePage for each frame at the same time as the transform:

if self.animation:
        resized_wand = None
        new_wand = library.MagickCoalesceImages(self.wand)
        length = len(self.sequence)
        for i in xrange(length):
            library.MagickSetIteratorIndex(new_wand, i)
            if i:
                tmp_wand = library.MagickTransformImage(new_wand, crop, resize)
                library.MagickResetImagePage(tmp_wand, None)
                library.MagickAddImage(resized_wand, tmp_wand)
            else:
                resized_wand = library.MagickTransformImage(new_wand,crop,resize)
                library.MagickResetImagePage(resized_wand, None)
        self.sequence.instances = []
        self.wand = resized_wand

[emcconville]

Thanks for reporting this, and sorry for the 5 year delay. You are correct with new_wand being reused, and introducing issues with animations + memory leaks. Holding off on paging reset as folks disagree with default behavior, and transform is also being deprecated. In fact, it was removed in ImageMagick-7.