[Typo3-dev] ImageMagick V6

[Michiel van Leening]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 19:04, Michael Stucki wrote:
> Hi Michiel,
> 
> >> [PHP-Imagick]
> 
> > Sorry, but I have a few deadlines before my holidays, so this would be
> > hard. My guess is, it's as fast as ImageMagick commandline, excluded the
> > system call.
> 
> Yeah, but it's still hard to extend TYPO3 for making it work with this
> extension. Is it worth it?

Don't know :-) Prolly not!

> > I know, *and* they change the parameters, so the code has to cope with
> > *that*. If you use a .so/.dll there's no more commandline order (if the
> > module plays nice)
> 
> Bat option! If you can load an extension to PHP then you have superuser
> rights, and in that case it would (I think so) be much easier to install
> GraphicsMagick instead. They don't have these problems, and we could
> probably provide a statically linked binary for the users...

Yes, but what's the overhead for making so many system/exec calls for
the image processing? And what about all the temp images that have to be
created? Surely that must cause some overhead? (don't know how much,
haven't tested it).

I've used the module in at least one app and am happy with the .so way
of working (not necesarily with imagick due to bugs, but that's another
story). It keeps my code clean and i don't have to worry about paths
etc. If the module's there, it works the way i want. Period. If it's not
there, sorry, no go. :-))

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