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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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