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ImageMagick Install"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 LLC
P.O. Box 40
Landenberg, PA 19350
USA
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-6.0.5-1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.net/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.0.5-1.tar.gz
ImageMagick client executables are available for some platforms. See
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/windows
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/mac
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/vms
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/
http://www.imagemagick.net/
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
to one of
magick-users-request@imagemagick.org
magick-developers-request@imagemagick.org
magick-bugs-request@imagemagick.org
magick-announce-request@imagemagick.org
You will receive a welcome message which tells you how to post messages to the list. 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
[ enter "anonymous" ]
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 ImageMagick(1) manual page. Also read the ImageMagick frequently asked questions in the file www/FAQ.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):
o Unix:
Install-unix.txt
o Microsoft Windows:
Install-windows.txt
o MacOS 9 (for MacOS X follow the Unix procedure):
Install-mac.txt:
o VMS:
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://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
or
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/
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. Note that enabling
TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER in FreeType's
include/freetype/config/ftoption.h will produce better glyph renderings but
may violate an Apple patent.
http://www.artifex.com/downloads/
to read the PCL documents.
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/~xml25/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.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif
to describe tags produced by most digital camera.
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.sane-project.org/
to import an image from a scanner device.
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
or via HTTP at
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
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. 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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