[Typo3-dev] ImageMagick V6

[Michiel van Leening]

Hi,

Has anyone given the imagick php extension any thought??

http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick

No more commandline hassles....

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 20:28, Michael Stucki wrote:
> 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/
> 
> --- Forwarded message ---
> 
>  > 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/
> --- Forwarded message ---
> 
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