[Typo3] Anyone tested Graphicimage ?

[Michael Scharkow]

Francesco di Francia wrote:
> Is here someone is using Graphicimage ? Is possible to have some comment 
> about performance ?
> Is really better than IM 4.X and IM 6.x ?

There was a thread on this in -dev recently, Stucki posted some 
benchmarks and general praise of Graphicsmagick.

> By the way, why i read that people prefer IM 4.x instead of new version ?
> How can happen that a new version of a software is less better than the 
> old one ?

It's not strictly about the output quality of IM, but the main issue 
with it was a constantly changing API which resulted in Stucki writing 
wrappers around every version to make it work. And the bug history of IM 
is also rather bad IIRC.

With GM, the API is stable, the software works as expected and seems 
slightly faster.

Greetings,
Michael