ImageMagick - Image Processing and Display Package
Description: ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Photo CD. With ImageMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.
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ImageMagick is continually being enhanced. Check this section periodically to see what enhancements have been added. See Changelog for past enhancements and bug fixes.

- ImageMagick now supports Scalable Vector Format (SVG) files.
- Support for Wireless BitMap, used in WAP - Wireless Access Protocol, was contributed by Milan Votava.
- ImageMagick 5.0 uses substantually less memory than previous versions. If the the memory requirements exceeds 80 mega-bytes, all subsequent image operations are performed on disk to conserve memory.
- ImageMagick 5.0 utilizes memory-mapped I/O on machines that support it. This feature can be a substantual speed-up for image operations.
- As of version 4.2.9, ImageMagick now has native blob support.
- Thanks to Glenn Randers-Pehrson ImageMagick now supports the MNG image format.
- Thanks to Bob Friesenhahn ImageMagick now has a C++ wrapper: Magick++.
- ImageMagick has a delegate subsystem that allows image formats not directly supported by ImageMagick to be seamlessly added via a delegate configuration file.
- PerlMagick includes 300+ regression tests invoked with `make test`.
- ImageMagick now automatically invokes pgpv to decrypt a PGP encrypted image when the filename ends in `.pgp`.
- ImageMagick supports the FlashPix image format under NT/Win95.
- PerlMagick now works on NT and Win95 computers.
- Support for TrueType fonts is now available as a delegate within ImageMagick
- Create 3-D web screamers with ScreamerMagick.
- Convert or manipulate images directly from a Web page with MagickStudio.
- Text is now aliased when rendering Postscript.
- Subimages can now be specified in any order. For example, `image.miff[3,2]`, `image.miff[11-1]`, or `image.miff[1,2,2,3]`.
- PythonMagick is an object-oriented Python interface to the ImageMagick routines.
- PerlMagick is an object-oriented Perl interface to the ImageMagick routines.
- Added a new format, `PLASMA`, a plasma fractal image. Specify the base color as the filename (e.g. `plasma:blue-yellow`). Use `fractal` to initialize to a random value (e.g. `plasma:fractal`).

Image manipulation software that works like magic.