ImageMagick -- Any good?

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I just stumbled across a program called ImageMagick at
http://www.imagemagick.org/index.html. It runs under various OS's
including Windows and Linux.

Is it any good? How does it compare to Irfanview?
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I used it for a while under Linux and it was quite robust...more than I
really needed. I never put it through it's full paces, but while I did
use it, it was stable and did everything I asked of it...which again,
wasn't much. BTW, just tried to download the windows version and got a
404.
 
Tiger said:
I used it for a while under Linux and it was quite robust...more
than I really needed. I never put it through it's full paces, but
while I did use it, it was stable and did everything I asked of
it...which again, wasn't much. BTW, just tried to download the
windows version and got a 404.
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The download page and its links seem to be up again :
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/archives.html
 
Rob said:
I just stumbled across a program called ImageMagick at
http://www.imagemagick.org/index.html. It runs under various OS's
including Windows and Linux.

Is it any good? How does it compare to Irfanview?
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It probably the best solution for batch image processing and
conversion. But if you are looking for a viewer, it is probably not
the best choice.


Hub
 
Tiger said:
The download page was fine. Clicking on the link for the Windows
executable gave me a 404...and still does.
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The page and the windows download link work fine here :
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q8-windows-dll.exe

Maybe a firewall or a proxy setting prevents you from the file.
 
| Also look at its brother/sister GraphicsMagick...
| <http://www.graphicsmagick.org/>

Cousin JanC ....

Do you also use PythonMagick which wraps GraphicsMagick ????

I'm having some problems with the latest version of PythonMagick
installed under the Enthought Edition for Python 2.3 ....
 
Cousin Stanley said:
Do you also use PythonMagick which wraps GraphicsMagick ????

I'm having some problems with the latest version of PythonMagick
installed under the Enthought Edition for Python 2.3 ....
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Sorry, I've never used it.
 
Do you also use PythonMagick which wraps GraphicsMagick ????
I'm having some problems with the latest version of PythonMagick
installed under the Enthought Edition for Python 2.3 ....
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| Sorry, I've never used it.

Cousin JanC ....

Thanks for the reply ....

I had the GraphicsMagick package working very well
under Python 2.2.1, but am having mixed success
with the lastest version under Python 2.3 ....

Adjusting to the lag time for add-on packages for Windows
to catch up and eventually stabilize with the latest language release
is probably difficult for development in any programming language,
and I'm sure that the all of the add-ons for Python will also catch up in good time ....
 
Cousin Stanley said:
I had the GraphicsMagick package working very well
under Python 2.2.1, but am having mixed success
with the lastest version under Python 2.3 ....
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You can always install more than 1 Python version (2.2.x & 2.3.x) at the
same time if needed.
Adjusting to the lag time for add-on packages for Windows
to catch up and eventually stabilize with the latest language
release is probably difficult for development in any programming
language, and I'm sure that the all of the add-ons for Python will
also catch up in good time ....
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At least those that are still maintained.

There is also PIL (Python Imaging Library) for image manipulation:
<http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>
 
| At least those that are still maintained.

And that is a proverbial GOOD thing ....

| You can always install more than 1 Python version (2.2.x & 2.3.x)
| at the same time if needed.

I do run both Python 2.2.1 and Python 2.3 Enthought versions,
but I'm trying to see what I can live without in the earlier version
and just maintain only a single distribution if possible ....

Trying to follow and install all of the package upgrades
for a single language release is more than enough work
in itself for me, but there a few packages that I like
that are not yet available for the latest Python release ....

At least for a while, I will hang on to the earlier relase
and benefit from the regular package upgrades in the meantime ....

| There is also PIL (Python Imaging Library) for image manipulation:
| <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>

I do have a version of PIL that runs under Python 2.3 ,
but never managed to get it working properly under Python 2.2.1
on the Win98 machine that I use ....

Earlier today I tested a PIL-based thumbnail image generator
that also generates an HTML index page with links to the full-sized pics ....

http://uselesspython.com/thumbnail.py
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Thanks for the reply ....
 
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