Just to chime in in ImageMagick's defence - it's a pig to load and configure (though HomeBrew makes this somewhat easier) - but it's a much more sophisticated library than almost anything else out there. It's huge overkill for most things folks want to do in a web app, but if you want to do stuff with colour profiles and raw images with more than 24-bit colour, you don't have many other options. (Unless you want to shell out for Photoshop, of course)
Not trying to disagree with all the folks saying "use something else" - for 95% of tasks, imagemagick is overkill. But that doesn't make it an inherently bad tool, just the wrong tool for the job. - Korny On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:49 AM, David Parry <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Lyndon Maydwell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> I actually installed it with macports. I've tried reinstalling, but > >>> the library is still missing. > > Someone recently recommended to me that HomeBrew was far more reliable at > installing ImageMagick than MacPorts. Perhaps you could try that? > > But, taking a step back, what's the reason for installing > ImageMagick/RMagick? Because, if you can avoid it, your life would be made > easier. > > For instance, we were using it because Gruff (graphing library) required > it. We've since ditched that for client-side graphing libraries like > g.Raphael, Grafico and/or Google Charts. The result has been much more > responsive, dynamic, better looking graphs with a lower RAM footprint for > the servers and virtually no installation headaches. > > Perhaps there's a HTML5 alternative for your image processing needs? > Something that uses Canvas? Or SVG / Raphaël? > > I have literally wasted weeks of my life with various ImageMagick installs > over the last few years... it's a pig of a library. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
