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

[Ernesto Baschny]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Michael Stucki wrote:

> 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.

Not very comprehensive, but here is a comparison of IM/GM/GD/NetPBM:

 http://www.baschny.de/graphic-test/

Note that I have just tested resize/thumbnail generation, no other special
effects that might be possible with these tools.

Cheers,
Ernesto