Daniel,
it's all nice and good but there's no production version of
ext/imagick available. Until this isn't done, everything else
is waste of time ;)
- Markus
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:04:51PM +0200, Daniel Lorch wrote :
> Hi,
>
> > If you think that imagemagick is great, so don't you write an extention for it
>yourself.
> > Other developers can deside on buildtime which image library they use.
>
> I posted this link already before. An (experimental) interface already
> exists (done by chregu):
>
> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pecl.imagick.php
>
> I am asking to make imagemagick a native extension to PHP, which is
> primarily an documentation issue. If someone searches for image
> functions in the manual not the GD library, but imagemagick should
> appear.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php
>
> If GD was so great, why do products like typo3 and "gallery" rather
> use imagemagick? Maybe because it's more feature-rich, supports 68
> formats and can do ALOT of effects?
>
> http://www.typo3.com/Server_software_and.1051.1.html
> http://www.menalto.com/projects/gallery/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index
>
> Did you have a look at imagemagicks feature list? Isn't it exactly
> what people would like to do?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
>
> - Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
> - Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
> - Create a montage of image thumbnails
> - Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
> - Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
> - Create a composite image by combining several separate images
> - Draw shapes or text on an image
> - Decorate an image with a border or frame
> - Describe the format and characteristics of an image
> - ..
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> -daniel
>
>
>
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