[Typo3-dev] Image Processing API - getting rid of IM

[Simon Child]

"Michael Stucki" <mundaun at gmx.ch> wrote in message
news:mailman.1.1095436507.29214.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Fireworks is commercial software. This would
> mean that _if_ I (or someone else) would implement this feature this would
> only be accessible for users who paid for this software.
>
> That's no motivation, at least for me.

One more OSS product which *might* be worth investigating: the Gimp can be
controlled by scripting.

"One of the wonderful features of GIMP is that it all its functionality may
be accessed through scripting. "

"there is another possibility and that is to run the scripts from the
command line, as a normal perl program."

http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/perl-tut.html


Also found this, suggesting using Gimp as an alternative to IM:

http://www.macgimp.org/article.php?story=78


I haven't done this, it might not be flexible enough, it might be slow, etc
,etc, but it is OSS and has quite a lot of built-in effects and so could be
worth looking at.

-- 
Simon Child