SGI Freeware: ImageMagick 5.4.1
ImageMagick-5.4.1: description + notes
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read,
write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major
formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, Photo
CD, 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 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++, and PERL-based programming interfaces.
Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
- Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
- Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to
an image
- Create a montage of image thumbnails
- Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
- Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
- Create a composite image by combining several separate images
- Draw shapes or text on an image
- Decorate an image with a border or frame
- Describe the format and characteristics of an image
You can access ImageMagick functions directly from the command
line using the ImageMagick tools convert, mogrify,
montage, composite, or identify. Use the
display program to interactively manipulate your images or
animate an image sequence from a graphical panel. Finally you
have access to the various image manipulation methods directly from
your favorite application development environment: Perl, C++, C, or
Java.
These programs and much more are explained by following the links on the
ImageMagick
Home Page.
ImageMagick may be configured to support a wide variety of image
formats.
Many of these are compiled into this package, giving it a
number of dependencies.
To install fw_ImageMagick you must also install
the following freeware packages:
fw_freetype, which allows image annotation with
TrueType fonts.
fw_HDF, for NCSA Hierarchical Data Format image
manipulation.
fw_libjpeg, which supports JPEG format images.
fw_libpng, which supports PNG format images.
fw_libz, for compressed PNG and MIFF images.
fw_tiff, which supports TIFF format images.
fw_bzip2, for BZip compressed MIFF images.
Some image formats are supported by run-time invocation of helper
programs. You may optionally to install the following freeware
packages:
fw_ralcgm, as ralcgm is used for CGM image
support.
fw_xfig, as fig2dev is used for TransFig
images.
fw_ghostscript contains gs, a Postscript and
PDF image viewer.
fw_html2ps supports HTML image formats via
html2ps.
fw_urt provides rawtorle to support RLE images.
fw_sane support scanner image formats via scanimage.
fw_hp2xx supplies hp2xx to read the HP-GL image format.
fw_libwmf has wmftogif, which reads the Windows Meta File image format.
fw_teTeX installs dvips, which converts TeX
DVI images into postscript.
fw_povray uses povray to handle POV images.
fw_groff includes groff, to which man pages
are delegated.
fw_enscript's enscript program is used to
process text files.
fw_gimp provides the launch delegate gimp.
fw_gnuplot images are decoded by gnuplot.
ImageMagick provides optional compiled-in support for some packages
that we cannot include in SGI's freeware distribution.
In particular, this build of ImageMagick does not include
support for:
- Kodak
FlashPix code, as it is not free.
JBIG, because it is patented and cannot be used
without a license.
MPEG, as its algorithms are also patented.
- Greg Ward's
Radiance software library, because its
copyright notice forbids redistribution.
A Perl interface (PerlMagick) is available in source
form, but due to the difficulty in producing a portable perl library
it is not pre-built in this package.
This package was built with 16-bit quanta enabled, but with
SOCKS disabled.
To auto-install this package, go back and click on the respective install icon.
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