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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, william ross wrote:
> after a few false starts, i've got imagemagick working, or rather fink
> has.
> i was initially reluctant to install all the bits of X11 that it insists
> on, but while i succeeded in installing imagemagick from source, i could
> never get it to link to fink's libjpeg. so i've stopped fighting it and
> now it's working perfectly, from the command line at least.
>
> problem is, the version of PerlMagick i installed before is more up to
> date than Fink's imagemagick, and seems to be upset. IM is finally
> working on jpegs, but i can't get at it with perl any more :(
>
> please could someone let me know which version of perlmagick is going to
> work well with fink's imagemagick 5.4.1-3, and where i could get it? the
> main IM sources seem not to go back that far.
>
> and while i'm here, is there anything else i should remove of the
> previous installation, in addition to the seven or so command line tools
> like mogrify?
>
> thanks
>
> will
>
> ps. & thanks especially to randal for the Makefile changes found buried
> in the archive.
One good thing to do is look up the package maintainer, and make sure to
include him or her on any messages regarding the package:
% fink info imagemagick
Information about 940 packages read in 13 seconds.
pkg imagemagick version ###
pkg imagemagick version 5.4.4-1
imagemagick-5.4.4-1: tools and libs to read, write, and manipulate
images in many formats.
ImageMagick 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 working the same or differing image format.
.
Web site: http://www.imagemagick.org/
.
Porting Notes:
Patch to allow detection of libxml2, includes proper c++ linker
options.
.
Maintainer: Jeffrey Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have included Jeffrey on this mail. He might be able to answer some of
your questions...
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