[Magick-announce] ImageMagick 6.2.7 released

[nagual at imagemagick.org]

ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick 6.2.7.  It is
currently mirroring and should be available world-wide within 48 hours.

ImageMagick®, version 62.76, is a free software suite to create, edit,
and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a
large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed,
various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined,
and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to
images and stretched and rotated.

ImageMagick is free software: it is delivered with full source code and
can be freely used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is
compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.

Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively
from the command line; more often, however, the features are used
from programs written in the programming languages C, Ch, C++, Java,
Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, for which ready-made
ImageMagick interfaces (MagickCore, MagickWand, PerlMagick, Magick++,
PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RMagick, TclMagick, L_Magick, and
JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images
automatically and dynamically.

ImageMagick supports many image formats (over 90) including formats like
GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.

Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

    * Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG 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 image
    * Draw shapes or text on an image
    * Decorate an image with a border or frame
    * Describe the format and characteristics of an image

Examples of ImageMagick Usage:

  http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6

shows how to use ImageMagick to accomplish any of these tasks and much more or
see the ImageMagick home page at

  http://www.imagemagick.org

Significant changes since the last official ImageMagick release, include:

2006-04-14  6.2.7-0 Chris Madison  <madisonblu at hotma...>
  * The GIF image format is now thread-safe (bug report from
    rachael.sandefer at kabir...)

2006-04-11  6.2.7-0 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp at glenn...>
  * Icon module was logging TraceEvent instead of CoderEvent; added logging
    if header info.

2006-04-10  6.2.7-0 Cristy  <nagual at image...>
  * Load system fonts with the fontconfig delegate library.
  * The -opaque option now respects -channel.
  * Put/get TIFF image position attribute.
  * Read PSD pre-combined layer.
  * Set the fuzz factor for -opque and -transparent.
  * Add -black-point-compensation option.  Use in concert with the -profile
    option.

2006-03-31  6.2.6-8 Chris Madison  <madisonblu at hotma...>
  * 'convert existing-image.png -background' no longer generates a fault.
  * -define pdf:use-cropbox=true actually works now.
  * Slight mods to magick/xwindow.c to compile under BEOS (path provided by
    henrimoi at hotma...).
  * #000000 improperly set the opacity channel (bug report and patch from
    digipete at shaw....).

2006-03-31  6.2.6-8 Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen <joukj at hrem...>
  * Patch for OpenVMS compile support.