Image Magick Alternatives?
The WYPUG migration from Win2K to Linux is progressing very nicely. However, despite my best efforts, I can't get Perl Magick to work (Image::Magick compiled successfully and without problems). All I use Perl Magick for is generating thumbnails (which seems like a waste anyway). So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? I have searched CPAN but haven't noticed anything suitable. If not, is there anyone who would be willing to help me install Perl Magick properly? Kindest regards, Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator West Yorkshire Perl User Group http://wypug.pm.org/
Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:26:57PM -, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: The WYPUG migration from Win2K to Linux is progressing very nicely. However, despite my best efforts, I can't get Perl Magick to work (Image::Magick compiled successfully and without problems). All I use Perl Magick for is generating thumbnails (which seems like a waste anyway). So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? I have searched CPAN but haven't noticed anything suitable. If not, is there anyone who would be willing to help me install Perl Magick properly? Kindest regards, You should supply some more information - support 101! e.g. does the module work outside mod_perl? Does a 'use Image::Magick' (or whatever) work? What about a (short!) test program? What are the failure errors? etc. Cheers, -- AS | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.calliope.demon.co.uk |PGP Key : A9DE69F8 ---
Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? The GD module seems like a good candidate. There's also the Gimp modules. - Perrin
Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
Ooh!!! Ooh!!! *jumps to publicize his module in a desperate attempt to find someone who might actually NEED it* [So I'm shameless... So what? :-)] Apache::GD::Thumbnail - CPAN friendly. It needs, however, GD, which means that instead of using Perl Magick for the sole use of generating thumbnails, you'll be using GD for the sole purpose of generating thumbnails... Also, it only has jpeg support currently... But it _is_ easy :-) Issac Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: The WYPUG migration from Win2K to Linux is progressing very nicely. However, despite my best efforts, I can't get Perl Magick to work (Image::Magick compiled successfully and without problems). All I use Perl Magick for is generating thumbnails (which seems like a waste anyway). So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? I have searched CPAN but haven't noticed anything suitable. If not, is there anyone who would be willing to help me install Perl Magick properly? Kindest regards, Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator West Yorkshire Perl User Group http://wypug.pm.org/
Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Issac Goldstand wrote:
Apache::GD::Thumbnail - CPAN friendly. It needs, however, GD, which
means that instead of using Perl Magick for the sole use of generating
thumbnails, you'll be using GD for the sole purpose of generating
thumbnails... Also, it only has jpeg support currently...
But it _is_ easy :-)
GD isn't actually that easy to install. Trust me, I've been hacking at it
all afternoon. You'll need to download the C code and install if first
(along with any other supporting software that requires,) then install
GD.pm from CPAN.
The install's not *so* bad if you
a) don't require freetype support (for producing truetype font support
which you won't for thumbnails) or XPM support (which you also won't
need for producing thumbnails)
b) have things like libpng and libjpeg already installed with the header
files (a nice Linux distribution might do this)
b) patch gd with the patch that ships with GD.pm to use gnu configure
and then use the ./configure script remembering to help it out with
--libdir and --includedir to point to the lib and include dirs with the
right headers in if it can't automatically find them
Said simply, it's not a simple CPAN install.
If you have any problems, give me a shout and I'll see if I can help,
since it's all fresh in my mind atm.
Later.
Mark.
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Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:26:57PM -, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: The WYPUG migration from Win2K to Linux is progressing very nicely. However, despite my best efforts, I can't get Perl Magick to work (Image::Magick compiled successfully and without problems). All I use Perl Magick for is generating thumbnails (which seems like a waste anyway). So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? I have searched CPAN but haven't noticed anything suitable. If not, is there anyone who would be willing to help me install Perl Magick properly? I'd take a look at home Apache::Gallery uses Inline::C and imlib to generate thumbnails. It supports PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PPM and other goodies. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:26:57PM -, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: The WYPUG migration from Win2K to Linux is progressing very nicely. However, despite my best efforts, I can't get Perl Magick to work (Image::Magick compiled successfully and without problems). All I use Perl Magick for is generating thumbnails (which seems like a waste anyway). So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? I have searched CPAN but haven't noticed anything suitable. If not, is there anyone who would be willing to help me install Perl Magick properly? Imager can do what you want. many formats, antialias, freetype, etc. Ed
