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+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                         M   M   AAA   SSSSS  K   K                          %
+%                         MM MM  A   A  SS     K  K                           %
+%                         M M M  AAAAA   SSS   KKK                            %
+%                         M   M  A   A     SS  K  K                           %
+%                         M   M  A   A  SSSSS  K   K                          %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                              Write Mask File.                               %
+%                                                                             %
+%                              Software Design                                %
+%                                John Cristy                                  %
+%                                 July 1992                                   %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%  Copyright 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization      %
+%  dedicated to making software imaging solutions freely available.           %
+%                                                                             %
+%  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  You may  %
+%  obtain a copy of the License at                                            %
+%                                                                             %
+%    http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php                            %
+%                                                                             %
+%  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software        %
+%  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,          %
+%  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.   %
+%  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and        %
+%  limitations under the License.                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%
+*/
+
+/*
+  Include declarations.
+*/
+#include "MagickCore/studio.h"
+#include "MagickCore/attribute.h"
+#include "MagickCore/blob.h"
+#include "MagickCore/blob-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/constitute.h"
+#include "MagickCore/enhance.h"
+#include "MagickCore/exception.h"
+#include "MagickCore/exception-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/list.h"
+#include "MagickCore/magick.h"
+#include "MagickCore/memory_.h"
+#include "MagickCore/monitor.h"
+#include "MagickCore/monitor-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/pixel-accessor.h"
+#include "MagickCore/quantum-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/static.h"
+#include "MagickCore/string_.h"
+#include "MagickCore/module.h"
+
+/*
+  Forward declarations.
+*/
+static MagickBooleanType
+  WriteMASKImage(const ImageInfo *,Image *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   R e a d M A S K I m a g e                                                 %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  ReadMASKImage returns the image mask associated with the image.
+%
+%  The format of the ReadMASKImage method is:
+%
+%      Image *ReadMASKImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+%        ExceptionInfo *exception)
+%
+%  A description of each parameter follows:
+%
+%    o image_info: the image info.
+%
+%    o exception: return any errors or warnings in this structure.
+%
+*/
+static Image *ReadMASKImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+  ExceptionInfo *exception)
+{
+  Image
+    *image;
+
+  ImageInfo
+    *read_info;
+
+  /*
+    Initialize Image structure.
+  */
+  assert(image_info != (const ImageInfo *) NULL);
+  assert(image_info->signature == MagickSignature);
+  if (image_info->debug != MagickFalse)
+    (void) LogMagickEvent(TraceEvent,GetMagickModule(),"%s",
+      image_info->filename);
+  assert(exception != (ExceptionInfo *) NULL);
+  assert(exception->signature == MagickSignature);
+  read_info=CloneImageInfo(image_info);
+  SetImageInfoBlob(read_info,(void *) NULL,0);
+  *read_info->magick='\0';
+  image=ReadImage(read_info,exception);
+  read_info=DestroyImageInfo(read_info);
+  if (image != (Image *) NULL)
+    {
+      MagickBooleanType
+        status;
+
+      status=GrayscaleImage(image,image->intensity,exception);
+      if (status == MagickFalse)
+        image=DestroyImage(image);
+    }
+  return(GetFirstImageInList(image));
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   R e g i s t e r M A S K I m a g e                                         %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  RegisterMASKImage() adds attributes for the MASK image format to
+%  the list of supported formats.  The attributes include the image format
+%  tag, a method to read and/or write the format, whether the format
+%  supports the saving of more than one frame to the same file or blob,
+%  whether the format supports native in-memory I/O, and a brief
+%  description of the format.
+%
+%  The format of the RegisterMASKImage method is:
+%
+%      size_t RegisterMASKImage(void)
+%
+*/
+ModuleExport size_t RegisterMASKImage(void)
+{
+  MagickInfo
+    *entry;
+
+  entry=SetMagickInfo("MASK");
+  entry->decoder=(DecodeImageHandler *) ReadMASKImage;
+  entry->encoder=(EncodeImageHandler *) WriteMASKImage;
+  entry->description=ConstantString("Image Clip Mask");
+  entry->module=ConstantString("MASK");
+  (void) RegisterMagickInfo(entry);
+  return(MagickImageCoderSignature);
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   U n r e g i s t e r M A S K I m a g e                                     %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  UnregisterMASKImage() removes format registrations made by the
+%  MASK module from the list of supported formats.
+%
+%  The format of the UnregisterMASKImage method is:
+%
+%      UnregisterMASKImage(void)
+%
+*/
+ModuleExport void UnregisterMASKImage(void)
+{
+  (void) UnregisterMagickInfo("MASK");
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   W r i t e M A S K I m a g e                                               %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  WriteMASKImage() writes an image mask to a file.
+%
+%  The format of the WriteMASKImage method is:
+%
+%      MagickBooleanType WriteMASKImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+%        Image *image,ExceptionInfo *exception)
+%
+%  A description of each parameter follows.
+%
+%    o image_info: the image info.
+%
+%    o image:  The image.
+%
+%    o exception: return any errors or warnings in this structure.
+%
+*/
+
+static Image *MaskImage(const Image *image,ExceptionInfo *exception)
+{
+  CacheView
+    *image_view,
+    *mask_view;
+
+  Image
+    *mask_image;
+
+  MagickBooleanType
+    status;
+
+  ssize_t
+    y;
+
+  mask_image=CloneImage(image,image->columns,image->rows,MagickTrue,
+    exception);
+  if (mask_image == (Image *) NULL)
+    return((Image *) NULL);
+  if (SetImageStorageClass(mask_image,DirectClass,exception) == MagickFalse)
+    {
+      mask_image=DestroyImage(mask_image);
+      return((Image *) NULL);
+    }
+  mask_image->alpha_trait=UndefinedPixelTrait;
+  (void) SetImageColorspace(mask_image,GRAYColorspace,exception);
+  /*
+    Mask image.
+  */
+  status=MagickTrue;
+  image_view=AcquireVirtualCacheView(image,exception);
+  mask_view=AcquireAuthenticCacheView(mask_image,exception);
+  for (y=0; y < (ssize_t) image->rows; y++)
+  {
+    register const Quantum
+      *restrict p;
+
+    register Quantum
+      *restrict q;
+
+    register ssize_t
+      x;
+
+    if (status == MagickFalse)
+      continue;
+    p=GetCacheViewVirtualPixels(image_view,0,y,image->columns,1,exception);
+    q=QueueCacheViewAuthenticPixels(mask_view,0,y,mask_image->columns,1,
+      exception);
+    if ((p == (const Quantum *) NULL) || (q == (Quantum *) NULL))
+      {
+        status=MagickFalse;
+        continue;
+      }
+    for (x=0; x < (ssize_t) image->columns; x++)
+    {
+      SetPixelChannel(mask_image,GrayPixelChannel,0,q);
+      SetPixelChannel(mask_image,GrayPixelChannel,GetPixelMask(image,p),q);
+      p+=GetPixelChannels(image);
+      q+=GetPixelChannels(mask_image);
+    }
+    if (SyncCacheViewAuthenticPixels(mask_view,exception) == MagickFalse)
+      status=MagickFalse;
+  }
+  mask_view=DestroyCacheView(mask_view);
+  image_view=DestroyCacheView(image_view);
+  if (status == MagickFalse)
+    mask_image=DestroyImage(mask_image);
+  return(mask_image);
+}
+
+static MagickBooleanType WriteMASKImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+  Image *image,ExceptionInfo *exception)
+{
+  Image
+    *mask_image;
+
+  ImageInfo
+    *write_info;
+
+  MagickBooleanType
+    status;
+
+  mask_image=MaskImage(image,exception);
+  if (mask_image == (Image *) NULL)
+    return(MagickFalse);
+  (void) CopyMagickString(mask_image->filename,image->filename,MaxTextExtent);
+  write_info=CloneImageInfo(image_info);
+  (void) SetImageInfo(write_info,1,exception);
+  if (LocaleCompare(write_info->magick,"MASK") == 0)
+    (void) FormatLocaleString(mask_image->filename,MaxTextExtent,"miff:%s",
+      write_info->filename);
+  status=WriteImage(write_info,mask_image,exception);
+  mask_image=DestroyImage(mask_image);
+  write_info=DestroyImageInfo(write_info);
+  return(status);
+}