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

[Michael Stucki]

Hi everybody,

>>   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?

I see two facts:

Fireworks works on Windows only. Since I prefer other operating systems
for running TYPO3, I cannot test this and won't be able to use finally.

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.

On the other side I fully agree that we should get rid of ImageMagick. There
are other products like GraphicsMagick and the GD library.

I use GraphicsMagick for our Intranet site and I'm impressed about the
quality and the size of the images but I still don't know how the
performance compares to other solutions. Unfortunately, there were no
answers when I asked for a benchmark.

- michael
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