Kent on wrote... | Hi folks -- | | I'm just getting started with IM using MagickWand for PHP. I'm very | frustrated by the lack of decent documentation -- at least, I haven't | been able to find any so far. The material at magickwand.org is so | sparse as to be almost no help. I actually spent $30 for a printed | book, supposedly the "definitive" guide; it may be some help later | on, but for now it's useless. | | For now, I'd just like to do some simple things like create a canvas, | write some text onto it, and save it into a file. I've got a script | that reads a file and writes text onto it, based on a couple of | simple examples I found on-line. But now I'm trying to create the | image from scratch, instead of reading from a file; and my scipt is | dying without any error message. | | Are there some documents or code samples available anywhere that will | teach me this kind of stuff? | What is needed is a "PHP Magick by Example" which is gives the basic ways of using the API.
RubbleWeb http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick/other.php has some examples for specific cases in PHP, but he is not explaining the API as most of his examples are CommandLine API calls. Another OLD set is... http://www.ioncannon.net/php/61/php-imagemagick-magickwand-examples/ But it is only the 'tip' of what is needed. The other examples are more like 'wow' type magazine articals, rather tha a practical guide. Until someone steps up to do examples and report bugs and problems they see as they generate examples (and reporting documentation fixes, not just errors) then little will be done. Complaining does nto cut it. Do something. Become the PHP Magick magick Guru... RMagick is a good example of this. The Ruby API developer has a create website explaining how to do things in is API. http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ It is probably one of the nicest IM API interface documentation there is. Kudos to Rick Mabry. If you like to see what is out on the web look at my bookmarks for IM http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/hotlist.html#ImageMagick Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't make the rules... I just impliment them! -- Programmers Law of Policy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
