ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick 6.2.9. It is
currently mirroring and should be available world-wide within 48 hours.
ImageMagick®, version 6.2.9, is a software suite to create, edit, and compose
bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of
formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be
applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons,
ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated.
ImageMagick is free software delivered with full source code and can be freely
used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is compatible with the
GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.
Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the
command line; more often, however, the features are used from programs written
in the programming languages C, Ch, C++, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP,
Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (MagickCore,
MagickWand, PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RMagick,
TclMagick, L_Magick, and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to
modify or create images automatically and dynamically.
ImageMagick supports many image formats (about 100) including formats like
GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.
Features and Capabilities
Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
* Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG
* to JPEG).
* Tranform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image.
* Transparency: render portions of an image invisible.
* Draw: add shapes or text to an image.
* Decorate: add a border or frame to an image.
* Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image.
* Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image.
* Image identification: describe the format and attributes of an image.
* Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images.
* Composite: overlap one image over another.
* Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas.
Examples of ImageMagick Usage:
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6
shows how to use ImageMagick to accomplish any of these tasks and much more or
see the ImageMagick home page at
http://www.imagemagick.org
Significant changes since the last official ImageMagick release, include:
2006-080801 6.2.9-0 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add -adaptive-resize option.
Permit x100 as a geometry in Magick++.
Respect width/height for image MVG element.
2006-08-01 6.2.8-8 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add -unique-colors to discard all but one of any pixel color.
The montage program properly parses the -channel option.
Make -colors work consistently as an image operator.
Some DPX images do not contain a television header.
Restore ability to read 10-bit grayscale Cineon images.
Improve handling of corrupt GIF images.
2006-07-28 6.2.8-7 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Handle undefined colorspace in TransformRGBImage().
Add ParseAffineGeometry() to parse the affine geometry.
2006-07-24 6.2.8-6 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Extend ordered-dither to accept a few more values 2x1, 4x1, 6x1, and 8x1 are
halftone patterns.
2006-07-15 6.2.8-6 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add -sketch option (e.g. -sketch 0x20+135). See
http://redux.imagemagick.org/discussion-server/viewtopic.php?t=7023.
Add -regard-warnings option to ImageMagick utilities.
The -colorspace option is an operator, not a setting.
Fix -affine so it rotates at the proper offset.
2006-07-15 6.2.8-5 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fixed a threading flaw in RemoveNodeByValue() in the magick/splay.c (report
by fedor57).
Properly scale for 16-bit unsigned FITS image.
PosterizeImage() is working properly again.
Don't expand filenames for CAPTION: or LABEL: image formats.
Add -adaptive-blur command-line option
2006-07-06 6.2.8-4 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add IsImageSimiliar() method to MagickCore API.
Improve color reduction algorithm for images with transparency.
2006-07-02 6.2.8-3 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The -page A4 option no longer returns a width/height of 0.
GetMagickModulePath() at line 803 in magick/module.c the variable 'home' is
not freed before returning.
Magick::throwException should not call MagickLib::GetException().
2006-07-01 6.2.8-2 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The DPX orientation header elements are 8 not 16.
Fix the ImageMagick web pages so they render properly.
2006-06-16 6.2.8-1 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix off-by-one error in DrawAffineImage().
Set the offset to layer #2 of XCF images.
2006-06-12 6.2.8-1 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Set proper precedence so -fx 'p{u[1]*w,u[2]*h}' parses properly (bug report
by Anthony).
Some fonts improperly return a negative max advance metric.
2006-06-07 6.2.8-1 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do not normalize -convolve kernel.
2006-06-06 6.2.8-0 Cristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fixed a number of bugs found on Anthony's bug page,
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/bugs/testing/.
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