Image Magick - Command Line Software

General Chatter
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Hi all;

For those of us who are interested in doing some image processing using the Command Line, give this software a try, especially since it is no charge. :lol: No gimmicks or tricks either.

The link: http://www.imagemagick.org will take you to their homepage for you to investigate the possiblities that can be done with this software.
Creating thumnails, in-mass, adding text to images (anywhere on the image), using a wide range of formating, including r,g,b.

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Lar,
This is strange that you posted this link. Just last Thursday I came across this software because I needed to convert SVG to PNG. This stuff is powerful. :slight_smile:

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Greg,
I know it… I’m still reading through all the things it can do from t he command line.
Another nice feature to is the fact you can do some ‘dos’ commands to create dates that I can pass that variable onto ImageMagick that it can add to the ‘text’ feature.
Example:
@ECHO OFF
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%I IN (‘DATE /t’) DO SET mydate=%%J%%K%%L
ECHO The value is “%mydate%”

The variable “%mydate%” can then be used by IMk within the batch job.
One feature I’ve found is the ability to thumbnail and entire directory with a one line command.–Cool 8)

Best part is the price… Can’t beat it.

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Looks great 8O Do you guys have this working under windows?

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Looks great 8O Do you guys have this working under windows?

It definitely runs within PHP on Linux. It’s used on this server for converting/re-sizing images.

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Works very well from the WinXP CMD prompt and you don’t have to be in the IMk directory to issue the commands. IMk commands can be pu into batch jobs as well.

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never forget about the power of http://www.gimp.org :stuck_out_tongue:

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never forget about the power of [http://www.gimp.org](http://www.gimp.org) :P
ImageMagick wins on the name. It has the feel of a package created at Unseen University by the Wizards of DiscWorld long ago. <:)

Gimp sounds like something created by a million geek chimps :(|) :(|) :(|) :(|)

The main thing I dislike about Gimp is that it needs GTK+ to make it work. I can’t remember the details now, but I had a horrendous time getting GTK+ to install onto Linux at one point. Horrendous to the extent that I think I gave up and then found ImageMagick instead!

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The main thing I dislike about Gimp is that it needs GTK+ to make it work. I can't remember the details now, but I had a horrendous time getting GTK+ to install onto Linux at one point. Horrendous to the extent that I think I gave up and then found ImageMagick instead!
True, but I use GTK+ for other linux programs, so I had to install, they have rpms, debs, now so it shouldn't be to bad. The funny thing is gimp is so "GNU" that they refuse to make a M$ .exe file. You have to get it from a third party :lol: And M$ people have to install GTK+ too, and I bet many get turned off by being forced to install something to be able to install something else....... :P

I haven’t tried this ImageMagick, I guess I better :roll:

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And M$ people have to install GTK+ too, and I bet many get turned off by being forced to install something to be able to install something else.......

If my memory is correct that was part of the problem with GTK+. I think it needed a number extras installing/upgrading on my RedHat server, including a newer version of the C libraries. I managed to seriously mess up the server by upgrading the libraries and I have a feeling that I eventually got to a point where it was impossible to install the upgrades/extras without upgrading virtually everything else on the server :frowning: