First off thanks to
joealba and
giulienk for your guidance.
I believe that
giulienk's logic is correct, and it seems to be right on. However it appears that Image Magick doesn't like to write to a temp file (at least in a W2K environment.) So after fighting with it for a long while, I finally gave up on the challenge for now. Perhaps I'll take this torch up at a later time. Therefore I did do what
joealba suggested for a fix. I knew that would work, but it still seems like a hack. If someone ever does find a solution, please \msg me. Thanks.
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