[magick-users] What programme do i learn in order to understand imagemagick

[zentara]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:29:01 -0800 (PST)
Luke Onwuka <lukedom_easy01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>what exactly is imagemagick? i can see people talk of EOF command, script and many other.  What programming language do i learn in other to be familiarise myself with imagemagick?
> 
>I understand greenstone software but cannot not go extra miles.
> 
>Please advice.
>Luke 
>(Lukedom)

Hi, I'm not the expert on ImageMagick, but it is a large
collection of image manipulation utilities, written in c and c++.

There is a low level c library of the functions that can be accessed
by various scripting languages, as well as from c and c++. See
MagickWand, MagickCore, and Magick++.

See:
http://imagemagick.org/script/api.php
for all the different scripting languages that you can use.

These are all allow different languages for doing the same
basic image manipulations, as the c commandline utilities. 
See http://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php
for a list of the actual utilities that IM installs.

IM is very big, diverse, powerful, and useful. If you want to familiarize
yourself, start with the commandline utilities and go thru
the examples at 

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

If you like what you see, you can choose your language interface if desired.
I like Perl myself, see  
http://imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php

You really need to go thru the IM website, and look around, I  can't
do it justice in a short email.


Have fun,
zentara


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