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

[Christopher]

Hi Michael,

--- 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.
> 
>   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.


I've been using Fireworks for a long time without knowing *any* of this
(Doh!) Can you point me to any resources for learning more? 

(Incidentally, your proposal would run on which platforms..? OSX and
various flavours of Windows?)

-Christopher



		
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