GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing that provides a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats.
These include important formats like DPX, GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, SVG, and TIFF.
GraphicsMagick supports huge images on systems that support large files, and has been tested with gigapixel-size images. GraphicsMagick can create new images on the fly, making it suitable for building dynamic Web applications.
GraphicsMagick may be used to resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save the result in the same or differing image format.
Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, or Windows COM programming interfaces. Extensions are available from third-parties to support programming in Python, Tcl, and Ruby.
GraphicsMagick is quite portable, and compiles under almost every general purpose operating system that runs on 32-bit or 64-bit CPUs. GraphicsMagick is available for virtually any Unix or Unix-like system, including Linux. It also runs under Mac OS X, Windows '98 and later ('98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP).
Here are some key features of "GraphicsMagick":
· 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
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Security Fixes:
· Libpng in Windows build is updated to 1.5.10 release. Provides a fix for CVE-2011-3048.
Bug fixes:
· PNG - fixed problem with bit depth when the encoder decides to write RGBA instead of indexed PNG.
· Fixed some temporary file leaks which were caused by the temporary file name being automatically extended to include a scene number, and therefore fail to be deleted.
New Features:
· Added '+noise random' and '-operator noise-random' to 'convert' and 'mogrify'. This modulates the existing image data with uniformely random noise.
· Added -strip option in composite, convert, mogrify, and montage to remove all profiles and text attributes from the image.
· Added -repage option to composite, convert, mogrify, and montage subcommands to reset or adjust the current image page offsets based on a provided geometry specification.
· New C function StripImage() to remove all profiles and text attributes from the image.
· New C function ResetImagePage() to adjust the current image page canvas a...
