Pipe image through graphics magic only half complete

Question

I am trying to set up a transform stream to pipe an image through with GM https://github.com/aheckmann/gm. So I can do something like:

readStream.pipe(resize()).pipe(writeStream);

I have used through2 along with gm to try and achieve this. It works but only parses half the image, leaving a large portion just grey.

'use strict';

var fs = require('fs')
  , gm = require('gm').subClass({imageMagick: true})
  , through2 = require('through2');



let readStream = fs.createReadStream('landscape.jpg');
let writeStream = fs.createWriteStream('landscape-out.jpg');


let resize = function(width, height) {

 return through2(function(chunk, enc, callback){
  gm(chunk)
   .resize(800)
   .gravity('Center')
   .crop(800, 500, 0, 0)
   .stream((err, stdout, stderr) => {
    
    stdout.on('data', chunk => {
     this.push(chunk);
    });

    stdout.on('end', () => {
     callback();
    });

  });
 });

} 



readStream.pipe(resize()).pipe(writeStream);

Answer 1

In

through2(function(chunk, enc, callback){

chunk is only a small part of the image.

So the behavior you got seems normal, you are resizing the chunks of the image, not the image itself.

This said, in the doc,

// GOTCHA:
// when working with input streams and any 'identify'
// operation (size, format, etc), you must pass "{bufferStream: true}" if
// you also need to convert (write() or stream()) the image afterwards
// NOTE: this buffers the readStream in memory!
var readStream = fs.createReadStream('/path/to/my/img.jpg');
gm(readStream)
.size({bufferStream: true}, function(err, size) {
  this.resize(size.width / 2, size.height / 2)
  this.write('/path/to/resized.jpg', function (err) {
    if (!err) console.log('done');
  });
});

but it s going to buffer the picture in memory, so it s not optimum.

As you are using imagemagick, you shall just let it manage all that part of the processing. And later fs.readStream, the output.

From the doc

var writeStream = fs.createWriteStream('/path/to/my/reformatted.png');
gm('/path/to/my/img.jpg')
.stream('png')
.pipe(writeStream);