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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 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/ 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 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):
INSTALL-unix.txt
INSTALL-windows.txt
INSTALL-mac.txt:
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.
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html to read and write BZip compressed MIFF images.
http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm
to read the Computer Image Metafile (CGM) image format. You also
need Ghostscript (see below).
http://www2.primushost.com/~dcoffin/powershot/
to read raw images from digital cameras. Try
convert crw:image image.png
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig to read the Fig image format.
http://www.freetype.org/ to annotate with TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts.
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).
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.
http://www.littlecms.com/ to perform ICC CMS color management.
ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz to read GNUPLOT plot files (with extension gplt).
http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html to rasterize HTML files.
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.
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.
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/ to read and write the JPEG-2000 format.
ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz to read or write the MPEG image format.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html to read the PNG image format.
http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html to read the Radiance image format.
ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/dept/OLD/pub/urt-3.1b.tar.Z to write the RLE image format.
http://www.mostang.com/sane/ to import an image from a scanner device.
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.
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/".
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/.
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/
http://xmlsoft.org/
to read the SVG image format and to retrieve files from over a
network via FTP and HTTP.
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ to read or write the PNG or Zip compressed MIFF images.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/ 
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