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

[Michael Johnston]

Um, no, Fireworks is almost feature complete with Photoshop AND has a 
COMPLETE scripting api. The most complete, well-thought-out, and 
bug-free scripting api I've ever seen, and I've done lots of workflow 
scripting in the desktop publishing industry, scripting Quark, 
Pagemaker, Fireworks, Photoshop, Filemaker etc. to produce large 
documents like catalogs, etc.

  Fireworks as a gui app is Photoshop-for-web-graphics. Fireworks driven 
by scripts is IM. Except then IM is a home-garage-built jalopy & 
Fireworks is a Mercedes.

And as I mentioned it has a built in xml-rpc server, for creating 
graphics without going through the gui at all. It can easily serve as 
the basis of a graphics generation tool. The quality is much better 
than IM, to the extent that on the current site I'm building, typo3 
generated title graphics/headlines are accepted only temporarily with 
the proviso that in two months when time & budget allow they'll all be 
replaced by fireworks generated graphics, so I will be doing at least a 
small part of this project irregardless. I was just curious if anyone 
else was interested, and making it an open source tool.

Cheers,
Michael Johnston
Planetactive


On 15-Sep-04, at 8:53 PM, Ivan Abramov wrote:

> Did you mean some other product, may be flash or flex? Fireworks is 
> simple
> raster graphics tool.
>