SGI Freeware: ImageMagick 5.4.1

ImageMagick-5.4.1: description + notes

ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, Photo CD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, and PERL-based programming interfaces.
Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

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

You can access ImageMagick functions directly from the command line using the ImageMagick tools convert, mogrify, montage, composite, or identify. Use the display program to interactively manipulate your images or animate an image sequence from a graphical panel. Finally you have access to the various image manipulation methods directly from your favorite application development environment: Perl, C++, C, or Java. These programs and much more are explained by following the links on the ImageMagick Home Page.
ImageMagick may be configured to support a wide variety of image formats. Many of these are compiled into this package, giving it a number of dependencies. To install fw_ImageMagick you must also install the following freeware packages:

fw_freetype, which allows image annotation with TrueType fonts.
fw_HDF, for NCSA Hierarchical Data Format image manipulation.
fw_libjpeg, which supports JPEG format images.
fw_libpng, which supports PNG format images.
fw_libz, for compressed PNG and MIFF images.
fw_tiff, which supports TIFF format images.
fw_bzip2, for BZip compressed MIFF images.

Some image formats are supported by run-time invocation of helper programs. You may optionally to install the following freeware packages:

fw_ralcgm, as ralcgm is used for CGM image support.
fw_xfig, as fig2dev is used for TransFig images.
fw_ghostscript contains gs, a Postscript and PDF image viewer.
fw_html2ps supports HTML image formats via html2ps.
fw_urt provides rawtorle to support RLE images.
fw_sane support scanner image formats via scanimage.
fw_hp2xx supplies hp2xx to read the HP-GL image format.
fw_libwmf has wmftogif, which reads the Windows Meta File image format.
fw_teTeX installs dvips, which converts TeX DVI images into postscript.
fw_povray uses povray to handle POV images.
fw_groff includes groff, to which man pages are delegated.
fw_enscript's enscript program is used to process text files.
fw_gimp provides the launch delegate gimp.
fw_gnuplot images are decoded by gnuplot.

ImageMagick provides optional compiled-in support for some packages that we cannot include in SGI's freeware distribution. In particular, this build of ImageMagick does not include support for:

Kodak FlashPix code, as it is not free.
JBIG, because it is patented and cannot be used without a license.
MPEG, as its algorithms are also patented.
Greg Ward's Radiance software library, because its copyright notice forbids redistribution.

A Perl interface (PerlMagick) is available in source form, but due to the difficulty in producing a portable perl library it is not pre-built in this package. This package was built with 16-bit quanta enabled, but with SOCKS disabled.
To auto-install this package, go back and click on the respective install icon.