On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:47 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:58:08PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Netpbm and Imagemagick are your friends. > > I wouldn't call ImageMagick anyone's friend. > > A reluctant servant who can most of the time be coerced into doing > what you want without too much violence, perhaps - especially if you > are fluent in the arcane dialect necessary to express your commands. > > That is, of course, as long as what you are trying to get it to do > doesn't put you into conflict with some of the double-secret limits > hidden in some parts of the product.
Sure, it requires more study and Googling to work than any GUI app, but it's extraordinarily powerful and very useful. It forms a critical part of my website-updating tools. I once employed it to help prototype an idea that became a patent for image-spam detection. [1] -- [1] http://www.google.com/patents/US20080091765 -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
