`IkiWiki::Plugin::img` appends `[$pagenumber]` to the filename to deal with multipage documents such as PDFs. However, `Image::Magick` doesn't seem to like page selection for filenames containing a colon. This is also the case for imagemagick binaries: $ identify 'screenshot_2015-06-06_18:37:53.png' screenshot_2015-06-06_18:37:53.png PNG 453x122 453x122+0+0 8-bit sRGB 11.2KB 0.000u 0:00.000 $ identify 'screenshot_2015-06-06_18:37:53.png[0]' identify: no decode delegate for this image format `37' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/501. $ mv 'screenshot_2015-06-06_18:37:53.png' 'screenshot_2015-06-06_18-37-53.png' $ identify 'screenshot_2015-06-06_18-37-53.png[0]' screenshot_2015-06-06_18-37-53.png[0]=>screenshot_2015-06-06_18-37-53.png PNG 453x122 453x122+0+0 8-bit sRGB 11.2KB 0.000u 0:00.000 This might be an imagemagick bug, but it's also possible that colons are interpreted somehow. Anyway, to render such images properly in ikiwiki I had to remove the colons. An easy fix is to remove ‘:’ from `wiki_file_chars`, but this can break existing installations. A better solution would be to make `IkiWiki::Plugin::img` croak on such image filenames (which anyway are currently not rendered, but `Image::Magick`'s error message is quite cryptic).