[Typo3-dev] ImageMagick V6

[Olivier Simah]

I am using ImageMagick 6 under win2000 and I have not notice any problem for
the moment

Olivier

"Michael Stucki" <mundaun at gmx.ch> wrote in message
news:mailman.1912.1086546596.6288.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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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