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+## Copyright (C) 2008 Soren Hauberg <hauberg@gmail.com>
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{info} =} imfinfo (@var{filename})
+## @deftypefnx{Function File} {@var{info} =} imfinfo (@var{url})
+## Read image information from a file.
+##
+## @code{imfinfo} returns a structure containing information about the image
+## stored in the file @var{filename}. The output structure contains the
+## following fields.
+##
+## @table @samp
+## @item Filename
+## The full name of the image file.
+## @item FileSize
+## Number of bytes of the image on disk
+## @item FileModDate
+## Date of last modification to the file.
+## @item Height
+## Image height in pixels.
+## @item Width
+## Image Width in pixels.
+## @item BitDepth
+## Number of bits per channel per pixel.
+## @item Format
+## Image format (e.g. @code{"jpeg"}).
+## @item LongFormat
+## Long form image format description.
+## @item XResolution
+## X resolution of the image.
+## @item YResolution
+## Y resolution of the image.
+## @item TotalColors
+## Number of unique colors in the image.
+## @item TileName
+## Tile name.
+## @item AnimationDelay
+## Time in 1/100ths of a second (0 to 65535) which must expire before displaying
+## the next image in an animated sequence.
+## @item AnimationIterations
+## Number of iterations to loop an animation (e.g. Netscape loop extension) for.
+## @item ByteOrder
+## Endian option for formats that support it. Is either @code{"little-endian"},
+## @code{"big-endian"}, or @code{"undefined"}.
+## @item Gamma
+## Gamma level of the image. The same color image displayed on two different
+## workstations  may  look  different due to differences in the display monitor.
+## @item Matte
+## @code{true} if the image has transparency.
+## @item ModulusDepth
+## Image modulus depth (minimum number of bits required to support red/green/blue
+## components without loss of accuracy).
+## @item Quality
+## JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level.
+## @item QuantizeColors
+## Preferred number of colors in the image.
+## @item ResolutionUnits
+## Units of image resolution. Is either @code{"pixels per inch"},
+## @code{"pixels per centimeter"}, or @code{"undefined"}.
+## @item ColorType
+## Image type. Is either @code{"grayscale"}, @code{"indexed"}, @code{"truecolor"},
+## or @code{"undefined"}.
+## @item View
+## FlashPix viewing parameters.
+## @end table
+##
+## @seealso{imread, imwrite}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function info = imfinfo (filename)
+
+  if (nargin < 1)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  if (!ischar (filename))
+    error ("imfinfo: filename must be a string")
+  endif
+
+  filename = tilde_expand (filename);
+
+  fn = file_in_path (IMAGE_PATH, filename);
+  if (isempty (fn))
+    ## Couldn't find file. See if it's an URL.
+    tmp = tmpnam ();
+
+    [fn, status, msg] = urlwrite (filename, tmp);
+
+    if (! status)
+      error ("imfinfo: cannot find %s", filename);
+    endif
+  endif
+
+  [statinfo, err, msg] = stat (fn);
+  if (err != 0)
+    error ("imfinfo: error reading '%s': %s", fn, msg);
+  endif
+
+  time_stamp = strftime ("%e-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S", localtime (statinfo.mtime));
+  
+  info = __magick_finfo__ (filename);
+  info.FileModDate = time_stamp;
+
+endfunction