ImageMagick 6.0.2: News
ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick
6.0.2.
ImageMagick 6.0.2 is a robust collection of tools and libraries
offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an
image in many image formats (over 89 major formats) including
popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With
ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable
for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color
reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and
save your completed work in the same or differing image format.
Image processing operations are available from the command line, or
from the C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, or Ruby programming
languages. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a
subset of SVG capabilities. ImageMagick's focus is on performance,
minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs.
Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
- Convert an image from one format to another
(e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
- Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add
special effects to an image
- Create a montage of image
thumbnails
- Create a transparent image suitable for use on
the Web
- Turn a group of images into a GIF animation
sequence
- Create a composite image by combining several
separate images
- Draw shapes or text on an image
- Decorate an image with a border or
frame
- Describe the format and characteristics of an
image
ImageMagick is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio LLC, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to making software imaging
solutions freely available. ImageMagick is available for free, may
be used to support both open and proprietary applications, and may
be redistributed without fee.
Other significant changes since the ImageMagick 6.0.1 release,
include:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed problem with relative filename wildcards
(e.g. identify images/*.jpg)
- DrawSetStrokeDashArray() now respects the
number_elements argument.
Performance improvements:
- Don't open a loadable module if its already
open.
Utilities enhancements:
Coder additions/improvments:
- When an unknown property is encountered in the
XCF coder, it enters a bogus loop that never
terminates.
Code/structure enhancements:
- Introduce MagickBooleanType and
MagickStatusType types of unsigned int. These types are 100%
compatible with the existing API but removes ambiguity. Previously
we got complaints that users did not realize that a return value of
unsigned int in most cases meant a binary value (True/ False).
MagickStatusType is used for methods that return a bit
mask.
- Introduce MagickFalse and MagickTrue while we
deprecate True/False.
API enhancements:
PerlMagick fixes/improvements:
Build improvements:
Windows-specific improvements:
VMS-specific improvements:
We would like to give special thanks to several people who have
contributed to ImageMagick, including:
Alexandra Christini - Validation, packaging, and release of
ImageMagick
6.0.2 source and binaries.
Kyle Shorter - PerlMagick enhancements and bug fixes.
Glenn Randers-Pehrson - Utilities, PNG, MNG, test scripts, documentation
enhancements.
Lars Skyum - PS3 coder and image profile enhancements.
Anthony Thyssen - ImageMagick 6.0.2 command line improvements and
validation suite.
Thanks to the folks at GraphicsMagick for numerous bug reports
and fixes.
And the many folks that contributed patches and enhancements as
described in http://www.imagemagick.org/www/Changelog.html.
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