[Typo3-linux] some rather major Typo3 problems

[Raven Morris]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 01:06:25 +0200, Ingmar Schlecht wrote:

> ImageMagick 4.2.9 is in fact recommended, however 5.x works well, too on 
> my system. Effort has been put into getting Typo3 to work with 5.x as 
> well, which you can see at various configuration options in the Typo3 
> install tool which are related to IM 5.x.

The problem was that changing those options in the configuration screen
did not alter the command line options that were being sent to the
"convert", "composite", etc. commands.

> But better times seem to be coming:
> The next major version of Typo3 will AFAIK work without ImageMagick 
> because Kasper was able to reproduce the functions which were  only 
> offered by ImageMagick up to now by using only GDLib, so there will be 
> no more need for ImageMagick in future.

If that turns out to be the case, then that is great news.

> BTW, Typo3 does also work well without image manipulation features!

Well, one of the things that attracted me to Typo3 were the nicely done
dynamic menus with drop-shadows ... along with the fact that they had
solved each and every problem/annoyance/bug that I had with using the
WebGUI CMS.

> I hope you'll soon discover all the great abilities of Typo3!
> 
> - Ingmar

Me, too.

I have to get a web site going quite quickly for an important
project a friend is doing, and I've never used Typo3 (but I do have plenty
of GNU/Linux and web design experience).  Though I could have gotten
something going quite quickly using WebGUI, I wanted the additional
features that Typo3 has to offer.

G'day,

 - raven morris