Ali Bendriss on wrote...
| On Tuesday 13 March 2007 00:09, Andrei Stebakov wrote:
| > Hi, Anthony
| >
| > I did my tests on PIII 650 Mhz PC (our web server) and it takes 35 sec! to
| > do this command:
| > convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Arial -gravity Center -size
| > 2000x500 caption:'Hello Image Magick!' text_image.gif
| > And 24 sec to do it with specified pointsize.
| > This speed in unacceptable for the things I am trying to do. Is it normal
| > for this kind of PC config? Anything I can do to speed it up (without
| > system upgrade)? Are there some alternative library that maybe simpler than
| > ImageMagick but can draw text faster?
| >
| You may try to target a png image format rather than a gif.
Again IO dependant.
This was one reason the IM v6 command line ordering was just a big
benifit. No need for temporary save files, just kepp everything in
memory until you have finished doing as much of the processing as
posible.
What are you doing that requires such speed?
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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