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ImageMagick in the graphics locker to ver. 5.5.4 (Solaris only)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Feb 7 19:30:49 2003
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:30:26 -0500 (EST)
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
cc: bug-graphics@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I've upgraded ImageMagick in the graphics locker from version 3.4 to
version 5.5.4, for Solaris only. Other platforms on request, but since
ImageMagick is in the release for Linux, there's not a whole lot of point.
To avoid confusion, the ImageMagick suite of programs are installed
with the prefix "im":
ImageMagick (1) - ImageMagick is an X11 package for display and
interactive manipulation of images.
imanimate (1) - display a sequence of images on any workstation running X
imconvert (1) - converts an input file using one image format to an
output file with a differing image format.
imdisplay (1) - display an image on any workstation running X
imidentify (1) - describe the format and characteristics of one or more
image files.
imidentify (9e) - determine if a driver is associated with a device
imimport (1) - capture some or all of an X server screen and save the
image to a file.
immogrify (1) - transform an image or sequence of images
immontage (1) - creates a composite image by combining several separate
images
(though they are not so-installed under Athena Linux).
imconvert is probably the most useful program in the suite, and I
believe it constitutes the best choice on Athena for converting bitmap
formats to postscript files, (suitable for processing into PDF files).
For more details, see the above referenced manpages, and
"http://web.mit.edu/graphics/share/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.html", as
well as "http://www.imagemagick.org". A summary of changes from
version 3.4 is not conveniently available, but I personally found it
fixed a problem with inappropraite scaling when converting TIFF files
to PostScript. There are doubtless a large number of features added.
The ImageMagick suite is dynamically linked against libtiff in the
graphics locker, with both the locker path and the afs path in the
runpath; users mirroring it locally should take note.
Please direct issues, requests, etc. to <bug-graphics@mit.edu>.
--jhawk
