Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
>
>
> Oh, yes, it was!  :-)  There used to be a command in /usr/bin named
> imagemagick and if you launched it, it brought up an interface with
> menus/buttons that you could click on.  Granted, I haven't used it in
> quite a while.  However, I used to use it all the time to scale
> graphics when I was writing the handbook for krecipes and convert
> images from jpeg to png.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>
>

I searched for that command, I can't find it or any reference to it 
having any GUI at all.  According to the wiki:

"The software mainly consists of a number of command-line interface 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface> utilities for 
manipulating images. ImageMagick does *not* have a GUI 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface>-based interface 
to edit images, as do Adobe Photoshop 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop> and GIMP 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP>, but instead modifies existing 
images as directed by various command-line parameters. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick

I also can't find anything on their website about a GUI either.  There 
are front ends to it tho.  This from the imagemagick website:

"The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command 
line or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite 
language. Choose from these interfaces: G2F 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#ada> (Ada), MagickCore 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#c> (C), MagickWand 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#c> (C), ChMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#ch> (Ch), ImageMagickObject 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#com_> (COM+), Magick++ 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#c__> (C++), JMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#java> (Java), L-Magick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#lisp> (Lisp), NMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#neko> (Neko/haXe), MagickNet 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#dot-net> (.NET), PascalMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#pascal> (Pascal), PerlMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#perl> (Perl), MagickWand for 
PHP <http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#php> (PHP), IMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#php> (PHP), PythonMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#python> (Python), RMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#ruby> (Ruby), or TclMagick 
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#tcl> (Tcl/TK). With a 
language interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create images 
dynamically and /automagically/."

I'm not sure if any of those are GUI tho.

Maybe whatever distro you were using sort of played a name game with the 
command?  The command was named imagemagick but was actually pointing to 
something else that had a GUI and was a front end for it.

Krecipe huh?  Installing it now.  I like to cook and eat.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

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