Re: image magic (moved from users mail group)

[Eduard Witteveen]

Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:

Jaco de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Ernst Bunders wrote:
   

2 Due to an apperant change in java (1.4.1) specifications it is no longer
possible to pass characters outside the ascii set to imagemagick. This 
makes
all text functions of imagemagick pretty much useless.
     

Strange, do you have a url with more information about this issue?

Isn't it possible to make a workaround by writing a shell script or batch 
file with the imagemagick command in it and then call this shell script or 
batch file?
   

You could make a small (C?) program which calls image magick and also
understands Java character escaping. IIRC this is the 'solution' which Sun
suggests for the problem.
But such a situation would make imagemagick very difficultly installable in
MMBase, because it will suddenly involve compiling C-programs, or
installing script-languages too.
 

Has anyone looked at: http://www.yeo.id.au/jmagick/?

*What is JMagick?*

JMagick is an open source Java interface of ImageMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org>. It is implemented in the form of Java 
Native Interface (JNI) into the ImageMagick API.

JMagick does not attempt to make the ImageMagick API object-oriented. It 
is merely a thin interface layer into the ImageMagick API.

JMagick currently only implements a subset of ImageMagick APIs. Should 
you require unimplemented features in JMagick, please join the mailing 
list and make a request.

JMagick has a LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License) 
<http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html#TOCLGPL> license.