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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:21:26
Message-Id: 28754959.n0nmvCtAsn@pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick by Colleen Beamer
1 Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 17:04:24 schrieb Colleen Beamer:
2 > On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
3 > > Hi Colleen,
4 > >
5 > > Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer:
6 > >> Hi all,
7 > >>
8 > >> I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize images and convert from
9 > >> one
10 > >> format to another (jpg to png, for example). ImageMagick is installed
11 > >> on my system (installed as requirement of something else), but I'm
12 > >> darned if I can find an executable to run the program. There used to
13 > >> be
14 > >> one in /usr/bin on my old system.
15 > >> Does anyone have any experience with this?
16 > >
17 > > yes :) It's /usr/bin/convert
18 >
19 > This isn't quite what I wanted - you have to add options to the
20 > command. I was hoping to get the graphical interface that I had
21 > before. Please don't tell me they took a great little program and
22 > screwed it up! :-)
23
24 ImageMagick has no gui-frontend and it never had. It's a library for image
25 manipulation and a collection of CLI-programs for the same task.
26 I have no idea what you used before, but it wasn't part of ImageMagick.
27
28 > Colleen
29
30 Best,
31 Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>