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  <!ENTITY imagemagick-size          "5.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY imagemagick-buildsize     "158 MB (additional 68 MB if you run the Image::Magick demo)">
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<sect1 id="imagemagick"
xreflabel="ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;-&imagemagick-patch-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="imagemagick.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword role="package">ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;-&imagemagick-patch-version;.tar</keyword>
      <keyword role="ftpdir">ImageMagick</keyword>
    </keywordset>
  </sect1info>

  <title>ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;-&imagemagick-patch-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="imagemagick">
    <primary sortas="a-ImageMagick">ImageMagick</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to ImageMagick</title>

    <para><application>ImageMagick</application> is a collection of tools and
    libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in various image formats.
    Image processing operations are available from the command line. Bindings
    to various programming languages are also available.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&imagemagick-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&imagemagick-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &imagemagick-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &imagemagick-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &imagemagick-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &imagemagick-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>The <application>ImageMagick</application> source releases are
    updated frequently and the version shown above may no longer be available
    from the download locations. You can download a more recent version and use
    the existing BLFS instructions to install it. Chances are that it will
    work just fine, but this has not been tested by the BLFS team. If the
    package version shown above is not available from the locations shown
    above, you can download it from the BLFS package server at
    <ulink
    url="&sources-anduin-http;/i/ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;-&imagemagick-patch-version;.tar.bz2"/>.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">ImageMagick Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="x-window-system"/></para>

    <para>The optional dependencies listed below should be installed if you
    need support for the specific format or the conversion tool the dependency
    provides. Many of the dependencies' capabilities and uses are described in
    the <quote>MAGICK DELEGATES</quote> section of the
    <filename>README.txt</filename> file located in the source tree. Additional
    information about the dependencies can be found in the
    <filename>Install-unix.txt</filename> file located in the source tree as
    well as issuing the <command>./configure --help</command> command. A
    summary of this information, as well as some additional notes can be viewed
    on-line at <ulink
    url="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php"/>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional System Utilities</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <xref linkend="cups"/> or <xref linkend="LPRng"/> (or any other print
    utility that provides an <command>lpr</command> command),
    <ulink url="http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/">DCRaw</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://dmalloc.com/">Dmalloc</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Electric Fence</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/email/pgp/">PGP</ulink>
    or <xref linkend="gnupg"/> (you'll have to do some hacking to use
    <application>GnuPG</application>),
    <xref linkend="sane"/>, and
    <xref linkend="wget"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Graphics Libraries</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <ulink url="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/">corefonts</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.i3a.org/i_flashpix.html">FlashPIX</ulink> (or
    <ulink url="ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/libfpx-1.2.0.13.tar.bz2">
    FlashPIX library</ulink>),
    <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/">Jasper</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/">JBIG-KIT</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="lcms"/>,
    <xref linkend="libexif"/>,
    <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
    <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
    <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
    <xref linkend="libxml2"/>, and
    <ulink url="http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm">RALCGM</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Graphics Utilities</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <xref linkend="espgs"/> or <xref linkend="gs"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.artifex.com/downloads/">GhostPCL</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="gimp"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.gnuplot.info/">Gnuplot</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.povray.org/">POV-Ray</ulink>, and
    <ulink url="http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html">Radiance</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Conversion Tools</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <ulink url="http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/">AutoTrace</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="enscript"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/hp2xx/">hp2xx</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html">html2ps</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://wvware.sourceforge.net/">libwmf</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG/">MPEG-2 Video Codec</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/">Netpbm</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="tex"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.xfig.org/">Transfig</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/">txt2html</ulink>
    (requires <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> and Perl Module
    <ulink url="http://cpan.org/authors/id/J/JS/JSTENZEL/Getopt-ArgvFile-1.10.tgz">
    Getopt::ArgvFile</ulink>), and
    <ulink url="http://www.cs.utah.edu/gdc/projects/urt/">Utah Raster Toolkit</ulink>
    (or <ulink
    url="http://www.funet.fi/pub/graphics/packages/Utah-Raster-Toolkit/rel3/urt-3.1b.mlg.tar.gz">
    source</ulink>)
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of ImageMagick</title>

    <para>Install <application>Imagemagick</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-modules &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

     <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>. Note that
     as many as 17% of the tests may fail due to system and/or build parameter
     settings.</para>

     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <!-- Commenting this out for now as it is redundant to information
         that has already been presented, or is in the 'command explanations'
         section below.
    <sect3>
      <title>Additional Configure Options</title>

      <para>There are additional switches that can be passed to
      <application>ImageMagick</application> to customize the installation to
      your needs. See <filename>advanced-unix-installation.html</filename> in
      the <filename class='directory'>www</filename> directory.</para>

    </sect3>
    -->

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--with-modules</parameter>: Enables support for dynamically
    loadable modules.</para>

    <para><option>--with-gslib=/usr/lib</option>: Enables support to use the
    Ghostscript shared library.</para>

    <para><option>--with-fpx</option>: Enables support to use the FlashPix
    library.</para>

    <para><option>--with-windows-font-dir=<replaceable>[Some/Directory]</replaceable></option>:
    This option specifies the directory where the Windows CoreFonts are
    installed.</para>

    <para>The options and parameters listed above are the only ones you should
    have to pass to the <command>configure</command> script to activate all the
    delegate dependencies. All other dependencies will be automatically
    detected and utilized in the build if they are installed.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>animate, compare, composite, conjure, convert, display,
        identify, import, Magick-config, Magick++-config, mogrify,
        montage, and Wand-config</seg>
        <seg>libMagick.[so,a], libMagick++.[so,a], libWand.[so,a],
        the Magick.so Perl module, and numerous plugin modules</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/Magick++, /usr/include/magick, /usr/include/wand,
        /usr/lib/ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;,
        /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/&lfs-perl-version;/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick,
        /usr/share/ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version; and
        /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-&imagemagick-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

    <varlistentry id="animate">
      <term><command>animate</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>animates a sequence of images.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick animate">
          <primary sortas="b-animate">animate</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="compare">
      <term><command>compare</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>compares an image to a reconstructed image.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick compare">
          <primary sortas="b-compare">compare</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="composite">
      <term><command>composite</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>composites various images into the given base image.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick composite">
          <primary sortas="b-composite">composite</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="conjure">
      <term><command>conjure</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>processes a MSL script to create an image.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick conjure">
          <primary sortas="b-conjure">conjure</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="convert">
      <term><command>convert</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>converts image(s) from one format to another.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick convert">
          <primary sortas="b-convert">convert</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="display">
      <term><command>display</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>displays an image.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick display">
          <primary sortas="b-display">display</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="identify">
      <term><command>identify</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>describes the format and characteristics of an image file.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick identify">
          <primary sortas="b-identify">identify</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="import">
      <term><command>import</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>captures an X window.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick import">
          <primary sortas="b-import">import</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="magick-config">
      <term><command>Magick-config</command> and
      <command>Magick++-config</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>show information about the installed versions of
        <application>ImageMagick</application> and Magick++.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick magick-config">
          <primary sortas="b-Magick-config">Magick-config</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="mogrify">
      <term><command>mogrify</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>transforms an image.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick mogrify">
          <primary sortas="b-mogrify">mogrify</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="montage">
      <term><command>montage</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>composites various images into a new image.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick montage">
          <primary sortas="b-montage">montage</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="wand-config">
      <term><command>Wand-config</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>shows the options required to use the Wand library.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick wand-config">
          <primary sortas="b-Wand-config">Wand-config</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="perlmagick">
      <term><filename class='libraryfile'>Image::Magick</filename></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>allows the reading, manipulation and writing of a large number of
        image file formats using the <application>ImageMagick</application>
        library. Run <command>make</command> in the
        <filename class='directory'>PerlMagick/demo</filename> directory of
        the package source tree after the package is installed to see a nice
        demo of the module's capabilities.</para>
        <indexterm zone="imagemagick perlmagick">
          <primary sortas="g-Image-Magick">Image::Magick</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>