Description: ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, or Java programming interfaces.
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"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand AUTHOR The author is magick-users@imagemagick.org. This software is NOT shareware. However, I am interested in who might be using it. Please consider sending me a picture postcard of the area where you live. Send postcards to ImageMagick Studio P.O. Box 40 Landenberg, PA 19350 USA I'm also interested in receiving currency or stamps from around the world for my collection. AVAILABILITY ImageMagick is available as ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.imagemagick.net/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7.tar.gz ImageMagick client executables are available for some platforms. See ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/mac ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/windows ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/vms ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux I want ImageMagick to be of high quality, so if you encounter a problem I will investigate. However, be sure you are using the most recent version from ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick before submitting any bug reports or suggestions. Report any problems via the web-based reporting facility at http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-bugs. WWW The official ImageMagick WWW page is http://www.imagemagick.org/ http://www.imagemagick.net/ To use display as your external image viewer, edit the global mail-cap file or your personal mail-cap file .mailrc (located at your home directory) and put this entry: image/*; display %s MAILING LIST There is a mailing list for discussions and bug reports about ImageMagick. To subscribe send the message subscribe magick-user to majordomo@imagemagick.org. You will receive a welcome message which tells you how to post messages to the list, magick-user@imagemagick.org. CVS ImageMagick is currently under development. It may be retrieved via CVS using the following procedure: Use export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.imagemagick.org:/ImageMagick" or setenv CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.imagemagick.org:/ImageMagick" to set CVSROOT in the environment (depending on your shell), or prepend -d followed by the CVS root to every command. For example cvs -d ":pserver:anonymous@cvs ... For brevity the following examples assume that CVSROOT is set in the environment. cvs login [ enter "anonymous" ] cvs co ImageMagick If you would like to retrieve the (huge) Windows source package use cvs co ImageMagick-NT If you would like to retrieve *everything* associated with ImageMagick (useful or not) use cvs co ImageMagick-World DOCUMENTATION Open the file index.html in a web browser, or refer to the manual pages for the display(1), animate(1), montage(1), import(1), mogrify(1), identify(1), composite(1), and convert(1) commands. The ImageMagick(1) manual page provides details for command options and will also aid with understanding library interfaces. Also read the ImageMagick frequently asked questions in the file www/Magick.html. INSTALLATION ImageMagick may be compiled from source code for virtually any modern Unix system (including Linux and MacOS X), Microsoft Windows, MacOS9, and VMS. Installation instructions may be found in the following files (or their HTML equivalents): Unix: INSTALL-unix.txt Microsoft Windows: INSTALL-windows.txt MacOS 9 (for MacOS X follow the Unix procedure): INSTALL-mac.txt: VMS: INSTALL-vms.txt MAGICK DELEGATES To further enhance the capabilities of ImageMagick, you may want to get these programs or libraries. Note that the Windows source package (equivalent to CVS module "ImageMagick-NT") includes (and builds) all of the library-based packages listed here. ImageMagick requires the BZLIB library from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html to read and write BZip compressed MIFF images. ImageMagick requires ralcgm from http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm
          to read the Computer Image Metafile (CGM) image format. You also
          need Ghostscript (see below).
ImageMagick requires dcraw from http://www2.primushost.com/~dcoffin/powershot/
          to read raw images from digital cameras.  Try

              convert crw:image image.png
ImageMagick requires fig2dev from ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig to read the Fig image format. ImageMagick requires the FreeType software, version 2.0 or above, available as http://www.freetype.org/ to annotate with TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts. ImageMagick requires Ghostscript software (version 7.05 recommended) available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
          to read the Postscript or the Portable Document format. Ghostscript
          is used to annotate an image when the FreeType library is not used,
          or an X server is not available. See the FreeType library above
          for another means to annotate an image. Note, Ghostscript must
          support the ppmraw device (type gs -h to verify). If Ghostscript
          is unavailable, the Display Postscript X11 extension is used to
          rasterize a Postscript document (assuming you define HasDPS and DPS
          is available). The DPS extension is less robust than Ghostscript
          in that it will only rasterize one page of a multi-page document.

          Ghostscript (release 7.0 and later) may optionally install a library
          (libgs). If this library is installed, ImageMagick may be configured
          to use it. Note that Ghostscript provides its own modified version
          of libjpeg and that symbols from this libjpeg may be confused with
          symbols with the stand-alone libjpeg. If conflicts cause JPEG to
          fail (JPEG returns an error regarding expected structure sizes),
          it may be necessary to use Ghostscript's copy of libjpeg for
          ImageMagick, and all delegate libraries which depend on libjpeg,
          or convince Ghostscript to build against an unmodified installed
          JPEG library (and loose compatibility with some Postscript files).
ImageMagick requires hp2xx available from http://www.gnu.org/software/hp2xx/hp2xx.html
          to read the HP-GL image format. Note that HPGL is a plotter file
          format. HP printers usually accept PCL format rather than HPGL
          format.
ImageMagick requires the LCMS library available from http://www.littlecms.com/ to perform ICC CMS color management. ImageMagick requires gnuplot available via anonymous FTP as ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz to read GNUPLOT plot files (with extension gplt). ImageMagick requires html2ps available from http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html to rasterize HTML files. ImageMagick requires the JBIG-Kit software available via HTTP from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/ or via anonymous FTP as ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/JBIG/ to read the JBIG image format. ImageMagick requires the Independent JPEG Group's software available via anonymous FTP as ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz to read the JPEG v1 image format.
          Apply this JPEG patch to Independent JPEG Group's source
          distribution if you want to read lossless jpeg-encoded DICOM
          (medical) images:

             ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/ljpeg-6b.tar.gz

          Use of lossless JPEG is not encouraged. Unless you have a requirement
          to read lossless jpeg-encoded DICOM images, please disregard the patch.
ImageMagick requires the JasPer Project's Jasper library version 1.700.2 available via http from http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/ to read and write the JPEG-2000 format. ImageMagick requires the MPEG utilities from the MPEG Software Simulation Group, which are available via anonymous FTP as ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz to read or write the MPEG image format. ImageMagick requires the PNG library, version 1.0 or above, from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html to read the PNG image format. ImageMagick requires ra_ppm from Greg Ward's Radiance software available from http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html to read the Radiance image format. ImageMagick requires rawtorle from the Utah Raster Toolkit available via anonymous FTP as ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/dept/OLD/pub/urt-3.1b.tar.Z to write the RLE image format. ImageMagick requires scanimage from http://www.mostang.com/sane/ to import an image from a scanner device. ImageMagick requires Sam Leffler's TIFF software available via anonymous FTP at ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/ or via HTTP at http://www.libtiff.org/
          to read the TIFF image format. It in turn optionally requires the
          JPEG and ZLIB libraries. Support for JPEG, ZIP, and LZW compression
          must be explicitly enabled by editing libtiff Makefiles. The TIFF
          library no longer includes support for LZW compression due to patent
          issues. If you need to use LZW compression, support is available via
          a seperate LZW compression kit (a patch) at the sites listed above.
ImageMagick requires libwmf 0.2.5 (or later) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/
          to render files in the Windows Meta File (WMF) metafile format
          (16-bit WMF files only, not 32-bit "EMF"). This is the format
          commonly used for Windows clipart (available on CD at your local
          computer or technical book store). WMF support requires the FreeType
          2 library in order to render TrueType and Postscript fonts.

          While ImageMagick uses the libwmflite (parser) component of the
          libwmf package which does not depend on any special libraries,
          the libwmf package as a whole depends on FreeType 2 and either the
          xmlsoft libxml, or expat libraries. Since ImageMagick already uses
          libxml (for reading SVG and to retrieve files via HTTP or FTP),
          it is recommended that the options '--without-expat --with-xml'
          be supplied to libwmf's configure script.

          ImageMagick's WMF renderer provides some of the finest WMF
          rendering available due its use of antialiased drawing algorithms.
          You may select a background color or texture image to render on.
          For example, "-background '#ffffffff'" renders on a transparent
          background while "-texture plasma:fractal" renders on a fractal
          image.

          A free set of Microsoft Windows fonts may be retrieved from
          "http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/".
ImageMagick requires the FlashPIX library version 1.2.0 from the Digital Imaging Group in order to support the FlashPIX format. The FlashPIX library may be obtained from ImageMagick anonymous CVS by checking out the 'fpx' module, or retrieving the file libfpx-1.2.0.5.tar.gz from the ftp directory. ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/. ImageMagick requires an X server for the 'display', 'animate', and 'import' commands to work properly. Unix systems usually provide an X server as part of their standard installation. A free X server for Microsoft Windows is available from http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11/ The Cygwin port of XFree86 may also be used. It is available from http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/
          There is a nearly free X server available for Windows and
          Macintosh at

             http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/
ImageMagick requires libxml available from http://xmlsoft.org/
          to read the SVG image format and to retrieve files from over a
          network via FTP and HTTP.
ImageMagick requires the ZLIB library from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ to read or write the PNG or Zip compressed MIFF images. ImageMagick requires a background texture for the TILE format and for the -texture option of montage(1). You can use your own or get samples from http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/ "Image manipulation software that works like magick"