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Re: ImageMagick support added
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Gregory Casamento |
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Re: ImageMagick support added |
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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:02:31 -0400 |
Fairly awesome!!!!
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Eric Wasylishen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey,
> I committed support for ImageMagick to gui yesterday, which adds SVG
> rendering plus support for a whole pile of other formats.
> (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php)
>
> A few notes:
> - Vector images are rasterized at whatever resolution ImageMagick decides on
> - it seems to work OK, but we could control it explicitly if needed, or
> render at multiple resolutions.
> - The alpha channel renders properly with SVG and raster formats, but not
> with ps/eps/pdf (which ImageMagick delegates to Ghostscript) - you get a
> white background. Ghostscript is too slow for interactive use anyway, IMHO.
> - DPI/point size are correctly read from formats that support it.
> - Multiple images are read from formats that support it. If you call
> +imageRepsWithData: on an animated gif, it should return all of the frames.
>
> Overall I think it turned out quite nicely, and should be handy for viewing
> obscure / old image files.
>
> --Eric
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