ImageMagick

Well, I needed a program to convert jpg images to a standard size for a client.

I tried using the perl GD libraries but they were not modern enough to do the job, so I tried ImageMagick.

Used FTP to get the source from ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick without a problem.

It even extracted without a problem!

Next steps were:

1. cd ImageMagick-6.2.7


2. ./configure --with-perl=no --prefix=~/usr/local


3. make (takes around 10 minutes)


4. make install (takes around 6 minutes)


5. PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:~/usr/local/bin


6. identify -list format


7. convert philip_test_image.jpg -thumbnail 200x200 -raise 4x4 philip_test_image2.gif