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

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi!

On 2004-09-17, Michael Johnston <mjohnston at planetactive.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds very interesting all in all.
>
>   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.

Yes, but we run Apache on Linux. Fireworks runs on Windows (and
MacOSX?). IM is free, what about generating graphics for 100 Websites
with a single Fireworks license? Setting up another server running
Windows only for Firworks?

Again, this is my own view of things. Others might be keen about
this. So, it might be great to take part in the discussion about
"getting rid of IM", define an API that allows the actual graphics
engine implementation to be freely chosen. Then go for FireWorks!

Good luck!
Karsten