"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
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-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/
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 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
[ 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 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/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.
o ImageMagick requires the BZLIB library from
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html
to read and write BZip compressed MIFF images.
o ImageMagick requires ralcgm from
http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm
to read the Computer Image Metafile (CGM) image format. You also
need Ghostscript (see below).
o ImageMagick requires 'dcraw' from
http://www2.primushost.com/~dcoffin/powershot/
to read raw images from digital cameras. Try
convert crw:image image.png
o ImageMagick requires fig2dev from
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig
to read the Fig image format.
o ImageMagick requires the FreeType software, version 2.0 or above,
available as
http://www.freetype.org/
to annotate with TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts.
o ImageMagick requires Ghostscript software (version 8.10 recommended)
available from
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).
o ImageMagick requires hp2xx available from
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.
o ImageMagick requires the LCMS library available from
http://www.littlecms.com/
to perform ICC CMS color management.
o ImageMagick requires gnuplot available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz
to read GNUPLOT plot files (with extension gplt).
o ImageMagick requires html2ps available from
http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
to rasterize HTML files.
o ImageMagick requires the JBIG-Kit software available via
HTTP from
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.
o ImageMagick requires the Independent JPEG Group's software
available via anonymous FTP as
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.
o ImageMagick requires the JasPer Project's Jasper library version
1.700.2 available via http from
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/
to read and write the JPEG-2000 format.
o ImageMagick requires the EXIF library available via http from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif
to describe tags produced by most digital camera.
o ImageMagick requires the MPEG utilities from the MPEG Software
Simulation Group, which are available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz
to read or write the MPEG image format.
o ImageMagick requires the PNG library, version 1.0 or above, from
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html
to read the PNG image format.
o ImageMagick requires ra_ppm from Greg Ward's Radiance software
available from
http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html
to read the Radiance image format.
o ImageMagick requires rawtorle from the Utah Raster Toolkit
available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/dept/OLD/pub/urt-3.1b.tar.Z
to write the RLE image format.
o ImageMagick requires scanimage from
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
to import an image from a scanner device.
o ImageMagick requires Sam Leffler's TIFF software available via
anonymous FTP at
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.
o ImageMagick requires libwmf 0.2.5 (or later) from
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/".
o ImageMagick requires the FlashPIX library version 1.2.0 from
the Digital Imaging Group in order to support the FlashPIX
format. The FlashPIX library may be obtained from ImageMagick
anonymous CVS by checking out the 'fpx' module, or retrieving the
file libfpx-1.2.0.5.tar.gz from the ftp directory.
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/.
o ImageMagick requires an X server for the 'display', 'animate',
and 'import' commands to work properly. Unix systems usually provide
an X server as part of their standard installation.
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/
o ImageMagick requires libxml available from
http://xmlsoft.org/
to read the SVG image format and to retrieve files from over a
network via FTP and HTTP.
o ImageMagick requires the ZLIB library from
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
to read or write the PNG or Zip compressed MIFF images.
o ImageMagick requires a background texture for the TILE
format and for the -texture option of montage(1). You can use
your own or get samples from
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/
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