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ImageMagick-4.1.0: description + notes

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The ImageMagick image display programs display and animate can display an image on any workstation screen running an X server. ImageMagick can read and write many of the more popular image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNM, and GIF. In addition you can interactively resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. ImageMagick also has command line programs (combine, convert, identify, import, mogrify, and montage) that perform these functions.

ImageMagick may be configured to support a wide variety of image formats. Many of these are compiled into this package, giving it a number of dependencies. To install fw_ImageMagick you will also need to install the following freeware packages:

• fw_freetype, which allows image annotation with TrueType fonts.
• fw_HDF, for NCSA Hierarchical Data Format image manipulation.
• fw_libjpeg, which supports JPEG format images.
• fw_libpng, which supports PNG format images.
• fw_libz, for compressed PNG and MIFF images.

Some image formats are supported by run-time invocation of helper programs. You may optionally to install the following freeware packages:

• fw_ralcgm, as ralcgm is used for CGM image support.
• fw_xfig, as fig2dev is used for TransFig images.
• fw_ghostscript contains gs, a Postscript and PDF image viewer.
• fw_html2ps supports HTML image formats via html2ps.
• fw_urt provides rawtorle to support RLE images.
• fw_sane, when it becomes available, will support scanner image formats via scanimage.

ImageMagick provides optional compiled-in support for some packages that we cannot include in SGI's freeware distribution. In particular, this build of ImageMagick does not include support for:

• Kodak FlashPix code, as it is not free.
• JBIG, because it is patented and cannot be used without a license.
• MPEG, as its algorithms are also patented.
• Greg Ward's Radiance software library, because its copyright notice forbids redistribution.

A Perl interface (PerlMagick) is available in source form, but due to the difficulty in producing a portable perl library it is not pre-built in this package.

This package was not built with SOCKS enabled.

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