[Typo3-dev] ImageMagick V6

[Michael Stucki]

Hi all,

I just tried to make ImageMagick version 6+ work with TYPO3.

These guys are so mad, they have simply changed the some parts of their 
commandline API! Although most things still work, there are problems with 
composite which (in our case) always uses more than two files as paramters.

In IM4 and IM5, the command for combining two images was:

composite -compose over <input> <overlay> <mask> <output>

(Of course, IM4 uses the filename "combine" instead of "composite".)

Although this page [1] sais that composite was not affected by the commandline 
changes, this does not work anymore!

After fiddling around with that for a while, I found out that the first two 
image parameters have to be switched now! So the IM6 command is now:

composite -compose over <overlay> <input> <mask> <output>

The perfect solution would be add some new options to $TYPO3CONF and add a fix 
for this issue in t3lib/class.t3lib_stdgraphic.php in the function called 
"combineExec".

However, let's first check if this is really the only issue. So I ask you to 
check if your ImageMagick version 6.x works with the trick I have just sent 
to the userlist (see quote below).

In case you have IM6 somewhere lying around, please let me know if this works 
for you. Thanks!

Cheers - michael

... I know we all like ImageMagick so much, don't we? :-)

[1] http://www.mstucki.net/files/typo3/im6_wrapper/

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 > I am using IM in Typo3, can IM 6.0.1 be used in Typo3 ? I saw in an other
 > thread it isn't, did I miss something or did you use command line or the
 > graphical interface.
 
 It works at least partly but still not perfect. The problem is that the IM
 developers have changed the commandline API which means that the composite
 commands will fail (although the IM developers once said that composite was
 not affected by these changes [1]).
 
 So here we go: I have just written a wrapper that can be used to execute
 ImageMagick 6 with no more problems (at least, I see no more for the
 moment).
 
 - Go to my site [2] and fetch the composite_wrapper from that place
 - Put the file to the directory where 'composite' is installed
 - Enter the Install Tool, section "4. All configuration" and change the
   value of im_combine_filename to "composite_wrapper".
 
 That's it! If you still have problems or just like to use my recommended
 settings, you should add the lines from localconf_im6.php to the end of
 typo3conf/localconf.php.
 
 I hope this works for you, please give me a quick feedback.
 
 Regards - michael
 
 [1] http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/cmdline/
 [2] http://www.mstucki.net/files/typo3/im6_wrapper/
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