Richard, far be it from me to criticise the obviously clever and dedicated
people who have created IM and continue to update it as free software for the
good of their community: my point really is that their community isn't mine,
or really their universe isn't mine. I think the core users of IM
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Thanks Warren, this is good stuff. As my primary target is Windows I think
I can use existing binaries, but of course I remain interested in a Mac
version, which I have now made work experimentally.
I did not realise that MacPorts will
Graham Samuel wrote:
I did not realise that MacPorts will create a 'fully functional
binary', so thanks very much for that info. I have some hopes after
all for my geography teachers.
rant If this is the case, then why the heck haven't the producers
of ImageMagick gone so far as to do
On 10/28/2011 07:33 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
[As an aside I would NOT recommend IM on a Mac to anyone who has only worked
within a GUI environment. The installation of IM for Mac took longer (and
appeared to use more resources) than installing Lion on my Mac, even if you
take into account my
Some people may remember my on-off quest for a way of handling PDFs in
LiveCode. What I want to be able to do is to let my geography-teacher users (on
Windows) read PDF-formatted bitmaps into LiveCode and do stuff with them. I
also want to do the same thing with TIFFs. After loads of discussion
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Some people may remember my on-off quest for a way of handling PDFs in
LiveCode. What I want to be able to do is to let my geography-teacher users
(on Windows) read PDF-formatted bitmaps into LiveCode and do stuff with
them. I also want to
Thanks Roger for reading through my long email. It is true that IM includes
GhostScript. The main problem for me is that as well as reading PDFs, I want to
read TIFFs. Using IM kills these two birds with one stone; but this would not
be a solution if my target platform was a Mac, because of the
Sent this early this morning, but got kicked due to length, so heres the
shorter version minus some of the copy paste.
### From previous message
Don't have a mac any more, but checked over the install instructions to get
up to speed so heres a couple things.
The path export places
This line
Forgot to mention, you should also add the IM library path to the .profile
(of course if you're executing .profile as a shell script from shell, you
can name it pretty much anything, as long as you chmod it to make it
executable)
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com
