[FQuest Announce] New Perl Module ImageMagick v.5.4.5

[Deb]

As a result of increasing demand, ImageMagick v.5.4.5 w/ PerlMagick has been installed on all servers for your usage. ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 72 major formats) including popular formats like FlashPIX, GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, Photo CD, SVG, TIFF, and WMF. 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 and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. For more information on the ImageMagick Perl Module visit:
http://www.ImageMagick.org/

Enjoy ;)

[scottmanning]

FutureQuest not only has the best hosting service I've used, but they strive to improve and continually offer more to their customers. This is why I have all my websites on FutureQuest and this is why I recommend FutureQuest to all my clients.

Thanks for serving me so well for the past three years.

Scott

[Darian]

Great news! Now all I need is someone to write a PHP interface and I'll be laughing.

I assume this is just the perl module - any chance of its being available on the command line as well?

Well done, FQ, for your exceptional service as always.

Darian

[Terra]

Thanks Scott! :)

Now all I need is someone to write a PHP interface
There is a PHP module for it, but it is experimental and unstable... PHP + ImageMagick are most likely going to be oil and water for quite some time...

being available on the command line as well
It is already available at the command line... ImageMagick and PerlMagick are two separate installations... To see the file listing, SSH into your account and type:
$ rpm -ql ImageMagick

--
Terra
--ImageMagick can be a webmasters best friend, and a sysAdmins worst nightmare - please use it responsibly--
FutureQuest

[Darian]

> Available on command line

Thanks, Terra, that's great. Shame about the PHP - I heard there was originally a version for PHP3 but it was so terrible no one has ported it to PHP4.

Cheers,
Darian

[Jeff]

Good news that ImageMagick is available at FutureQuest! Neat!

The bigger problem with php scripts which typically use ImageMagick is that most of the pre-built gallery scripts, etc. require safemode to be off. For example, on a dedicated server I currently have PhotoPost running which recently made the switch from perl to php and I wonder if it was really worth it to change languages. Since we're talking about image processing (very high cpu load by itself) the forking expense is probably negligible in comparison to the image processing cpu. (Unless we're talking about using ImageMagick to identify rather than the typical use for resizing and then creating a static image which will be loaded). PhotoPost doesn't have a problem interfacing with ImageMagick but file ownership and the need for safemode to be off are a drawback compared with the perl version...

Anyway, great news that it is available at FutureQuest now.

[Dunx]

Hooray! Perfect timing, too.

[skolnick]

Originally posted by Terra:
--ImageMagick can be a webmasters best friend, and a sysAdmins worst nightmare - please use it responsibly--
Any guidance? I just used convert (at home! honest!) to resize and frame about 30 jpgs -- I didn't time it, but it was definitely over 5 seconds on an 800 MHz Athlon, kernal 2.4.7-10.

Incidentally, the man page says to use -mattecolor to set the color of a frame, but that doesn't seem to work for me ...