imagemagick

How do I replace any color that is not a specific color using PerlMagick?

After many hair-pulling frustrations I've finally got one version of the PerlMagick module working with my ActivePerl 5.10.0 build 1005. Now I'm playing with it to do some very basic color substitution. I already can substitute one color ,say, black, with another, say, blue, using the following code: #!perl use strict; use warnings; ...

How to find the path to ImageMagick config files

I'm attempting to load a ICM color profile file that is stored with the main ImageMagick config files (colors.xml, etc.) using RMagick. I want to make sure that I always provide the correct path to the file across deployments using slightly different ImageMagick setups and/or versions. Is there a way to find to get this location from Im...

how to write this where paperclipe understands

I can do this command to resize an image to fit a specific size on the command line with Imagemagick. How do I tell paperclip can do the same when I upload an image: convert Bisiye2.jpg -thumbnail '150x150^' -gravity center -extent 150x150 Bisiye2_tofit.jpg ...

Resize an image with Paperclip [Rails]

The Paperclip plugin for Rails has a resize option that keeps the image in proportion. According to Ryan Bates' Paperclip Railscast, to make sure that option is on, you have to add a greater-than sign in the end of the size for the style you're looking to resize, as such: :styles => { :small => "160x160>" } I'm looking for Paperclip t...

Get Pixel with Magic++

hi . Can anybody show me an example how i get the pixel values of an Image ? I want to read an Image and iterate over it .. and print out the actual "red" value. Can anyone help ? i'm a beginner :( ...

Take a screenshot of X display from SSH

I'm trying to take a screenshot of a particular X display with imagemagick using the following syntax : import -window root -geometry 640:480 -display :9999 myfile01.pcx So taking the screenshot of root at display :999, but i get a : import: unable to open X server `:9999' @ import.c/ImportImageCommand/367. I'm logged in with SSH,...

Analyzing image complexity

Are there any algorithms available for analyzing the complexity of an image? Basically I'm writing a Perl script that will use the system() function to launch MPlayer in the background to generate 10 to 20 screenshots for the input video file and I'd like it to be able to discard any simple images such as a shot of the sky, or a black ba...

Creating text effects like curved, arched, wedged in ruby on rails or php

i know there is a convert -swirl effect in imagemagick but can i create other effects for text like curved, arched, wedged, pinched etc.. just like wordart in word. i am open to other packages that might help me get this thing done.. php or ruby.. ...

How to install and activate ImageMagick (imagick) with Zend Server?

I'm trying to install and activate ImageMagick with Zend Server (on Ubuntu Server Linux), how could achieve it? (the documentation does not say how to add extra extensions) ...

Convert image buffer to pdf with ImageMagick in C++

Hi, I've downloaded the dll's for ImageMagick and am wondering if anybody knows of some example code to accomplish a simple task: I have generated an image in C++ and have the buffer in RGB format. I need to convert it to PDF format (without writing to a file) before sending it over a TCP socket. Is this doable with ImageMagick (or any...

How to add the ImageMagick install to my path on Ubuntu

I have had been on a roller coaster trying to get ImageMagick to work on my Ubuntu slice. I Whenever I try to upload an image I get the following error: /tmp/stream.1170.0 is not recognized by the 'identify' command. If I type 'which identify' I get: /usr/local/bin/identify If I run '/usr/local/bin/identify' or just 'identify', I get t...

Where can I find PythonMagick documentation?

I cant seem to find the PythonMagick (Bindings for ImageMagick) documentation anywhere. Even the download doesn't have a docs folder. Link please? ...

Some JPEG images are not working in IE

Hello, I have a press archive. The press archive displays automattically created thumbnails as links to a PDF document. This is what i get in IE 6, 7 & 8: While it works fine in Chrome: The thumbnails are automatically created by imagemagick: $cmd = 'convert ' . $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'] # This is a PDF file . '[0]' #...

Python Daemon Subprocess not working at boot

I am attempting to write a python daemon that will launch at boot. The goal of the script is to receive a job from our gearman load balancing server and complete the job. I am using the python-daemon module from pypi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/). The nature of the job that it is completing is converting images in the or...

How do I pass ImageMagick environment variables to nginx mongrels?

My Rails app makes use of ImageMagick, but the app fails on trying to execute the ImageMagick command ("identify"). I fixed this issue in development (where I'm running Apache/Passenger) by passing the following environment variables in my Apache config: SetEnv MAGICK_HOME /opt/local/var/macports/software/ImageMagick/6.5.9-0_0+q16 S...

Create a thumbnail of a dwg in in a linux environment

Creating a ruby on rails site that uses RMagick to create thumbnails for many types of images. RMagick cannot read dwg files however. I've tried a few things, looked into the Java library JDWGLib, which would probably allow me to write a converter, but it would be a total from the ground up solution, where I just need a thumbnail. Als...

Issue with converting PDF pages to images with ImageMagick's convert (and PHP)

I'm trying to create a small web service to convert PDF files to a series of images. When I run convert /full/path/to/source.pdf full/path/to/target.jpg when connected to the [Mediatemple (gs)] server via ssh, everything works correctly. When executing the same command through PHP's exec() function, only the first few pages of the PDF ...

ImageMagick on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Is there any way to get it to compile and run?

It seems that I have more trouble getting standard Unix things to run on Snow Leopard than any other platform--including Windows cygwin For the past couple of days, I've been trying to get ImageMagick to run on Snow Leopard. The most obvious way, Mac Ports, fails: tppllc-Mac-Pro:ImageMagick-sl swirsky$ sudo port install imagemagick --...

Compositing a large image with ImageMagick

I'm trying to create a very large image (86400 x 43200) using several tiles that make up a portion of this final image with ImageMagick (using the .NET bindings). The problem seems to be when I attempt to create my output image with the given size; ImageMagick just hangs on the Resize() call. When I say 'hangs' I mean the program become...

ImageMagick static compilation with another project gives linker errors

I've downloaded the ImageMagick source, compiled the wizard to create a Visual Studio solution for static linkage, and included the static library Magick++ project in my sample project (code below). I've also added a dependency on that project and included the .lib file in the solution, nothing helps. #include <Magick++.h> int main() {...