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- From: shahrukh1514@xxxxxxxxx (Shahrukh Khan)
- Date: Tue Mar 24 12:02:15 2009
Most packages come with a "install" or a "readme" file. It typically
has instructions, if the packages needs some special setting. These
files are in the /usr/share/doc path.
There must be such a file for the magickwand package. Have you searched
for such instructions?
Ya, I searched /usr/share/docs and got folder named php-magickwand. It
contained README file whose contents i am pasting below
MagickWand for PHP
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MagickWand for PHP is a native PHP interface to the new ImageMagick
MagickWand
API.
It is an almost complete port of the ImageMagick C API, excluding some
X-Server
related functionality, and progress monitoring.
The functionality of the MagickWand API is pretty much unparalelled in the
PHP
imaging world, allowing the PHP programmer read/write/manipulate access to
multiple image formats, along with vector drawing, pixel-level manipulation,
and special effects capabilities and more.
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ImageMagick (in general) has a fairly high learning curve, but the new
MagickWand API, on which this extension is based, is a thousand times
clearer,
and as a result, easier to understand and manipulate.
It is still complex, to a degree, but it it is capable of some amazing
stuff,
so it is well worth the time and effort to learn it.
However, it is in many ways still beta software. Both the ImageMagick
MagickWand C API, and MagickWand for PHP are apparently stable, but they
still
need testing, so take that into account.
MagickWand for PHP tries to stay up to date with the latest releases of
ImageMagick, so if your PHP compilation fails with an error in some "zif_"
function about references to a function that can't be found, you most likely
need to update your ImageMagick to the last version MagickWand is known to
have successfully compiled against (see INSTALL in this directory for that
information).
The last-known-good ImageMagick version, as well as the required ImageMagick
version, will always be indicated at the top of the INSTALL file in this
directory, and notations will be put in the ChangeLog file as well.
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Check the ChangeLog and INSTALL files for more necessary information.
The ./docs folder contains the manual.
The ./demo folder contains 3 files (so far):
demo.gif : an example script-generated animated GIF file
demo.php : the script which generates the demo.gif file
demo_c.php : the same script with very detailed comments
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So, intrepid traveller, forth, to the journey!
Here it is not mentioned anything about configuring magickwand. I want to
run MagickWand codes in php to compare images. Please suggest any other
alternative.
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