[Typo3-dev] ImageMagick V6

[Ernesto Baschny]

On 7 Jun 2004 at 22:14, Michael Stucki wrote:

> > Has anyone given the imagick php extension any thought??
> > http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick
> 
> I heard of it. One big problem is that this extension needs superuser access
> because you'll have to load a new PHP extension.
> 
> Anyway, let's see if it's fast enough. Can you please make a comparison just
> like in this example? Would be very interested...
> http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=gGV5c.143%24Fo4.1011%40typhoon.sonic.net
> 
> > No more commandline hassles....
> 
> I don't see this as the problem, but it's horrible that the IM developers
> change their program from every one version to the next.
> 
> Before I'm going to look at GraphicsMagick, could anybody who already uses
> it please compare its speed with other methos, too?

I did something like that some months ago (April-2004): 

 http://www.baschny.de/graphic-test/

comparing the graphic libraries to use in the Gallery project
(http://gallery.sf.net): 

- netpbm 10.20 
- ImageMagick 4.2.9 
- ImageMagick 5.4.2
- GraphicsMagick 1.0.5



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