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isac
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Jul 24, 2002, 4:19 PM
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Imagemagick suport
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See what I'm talking about (again).
"ImageMagickTM 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, PhotoCD, 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++, Perl, or Java programming interfaces."
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fraser_itools
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Jul 25, 2002, 10:53 AM
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Thanks for your suggestion. I'm assuming you're recommending that we take a look at this program and consider supporting it?
We've actually taken a look at Imagemagick in the past. Although it's got some pretty cool features, it's written in C. From our experience, compiled C runs differently on different webserver configurations. We've written our software in Perl so it pretty much runs perfectly right out of the box on pretty much every single webserver we've ever come across.
So, although software like this would provide some additional functionality to our software, it would increase our technical support significantly as well.
We're keeping our eyes open for something like this, but written in Perl so we could include it easily with our software, and feel confident that it's going to run everywhere. Of course, Perl handles text really well, but it's not so great with graphics.
If anyone knows of any software we should be aware of, please let us know.
Fraser Cain - Product Manager
interactivetools.com, inc.
Tel: (604)689-3347 - Fax: (604)689-3342 - Toll Free: 1(800)752-0455
Software for your Website - http://www.interactivetools.com/
(This post was edited by Fraser on Jul 25, 2002, 11:05 AM)
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WebGuys
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Aug 5, 2002, 4:41 AM
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Re: [Fraser] Imagemagick suport
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Yes but it appears that parts of AM are written in c also. complieled i mean so why not use imagemagic?
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Dave
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Aug 5, 2002, 11:58 AM
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Re: [WebGuys] Imagemagick suport
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One of the things we've been working hard at since day one is making software that works great on just about anybodies server. A lot of users don't have all the extra features on their server that some of us take for granted. Many people can't even install non-standard modules (the ones that don't come by default with Perl itself), many people don't even have telnet access to their own server (or virtual server as it may be).
In fact, we even have to be careful the way we write our Perl code, because a number of our customers (or more correctly, our customer’s customers) still use Perl 5.004, a version which is several years old. In fact, we can't use some of the newer features of Perl for this very reason and have to be very careful to make sure we write code in such a way that it will work on such a wide range of versions.
Image resampling is something we really want to offer and we're looking at all kinds of ways to do it, including using imagemagick. We just want to make sure that whatever way we choose will be available to as many people as possible.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Dave
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Aug 5, 2002, 12:00 PM
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I was just going to add that the other methods we're thinking about are GD.pm, a pure perl solution (ouch), and/or a remote image server solution (where if you had one server with the right modules you could use it to remotely manage image requests from other less fortunate servers that didn't have the right modules). : )
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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vaiso
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Aug 7, 2002, 2:39 PM
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I am new to Auto Manager but suggested the GD.pm module some time ago. I have used it within another set of scripts I use. With the right coding all you need to do is to point an upload page at an image and it does all the resizing and upload at once.
To my mind the biggest problem for any customer is the manipulation of images. Any facility (especially GD.pm)which can remove the need for image manipulation would be a god send.
Geoff
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