ImageMagick as user install

[Armin Hartinger]

With this package, can I define transparency of certain colors in GIFs?

If so, it might be a viable alternative.

-Armin


----- Original Message -----
From: "J.L.Francois" <frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: ImageMagick as user install


> It seems like on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:40:42PM -0700, Armin Hartinger
scribbled:
> Orig Msg> Hi List,
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> Ok, here's the challenge:
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> I'm sitting on a mountain of images and daily there are more
coming. Now
> Orig Msg> I need to take all of them and transform them to different
sizes, the
> Orig Msg> smallest will be transparent GIFs. I'd like the write both shell
as well
> Orig Msg> as PHP scripts to manually process those.
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> I think the ImageMagick library of tools will do the job best.
It's at
> Orig Msg> http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> Now my problem. I neither manage to compile it properly (I think
it only
> Orig Msg> compiles right as root, which I don't have. At home, as root on
my local
> Orig Msg> box I got it to work fine) nor do the binaries (686-linux) work
for me.
> Orig Msg> It's complaining that it can't find the proper .so libraries,
while I
> Orig Msg> have added both the bin and lib directories where the binaries
and .so
> Orig Msg> files reside to my environment variables.
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> Can somebody try to get it to work as a user and point my
towards the
> Orig Msg> "right way" ?
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> I can't install it as root as I don't have that kind of access
and the
> Orig Msg> Unix-admins are "too busy" and backlogged for weeks. So my
request won't
> Orig Msg> happen anytime soon.
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> Please help.
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> -Armin
> Orig Msg>
>
> You may want to reevaluate your requirements and take a look at the
> NETPBM package.
> It is designed to work in shell scripts and can do allmost anything
> with images and a few non images too.
>
> =====================
> Package: netpbm
> Priority: optional
> Section: graphics
> Installed-Size: 1398
> Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: netpbm-free
> Version: 1:19940301.2-13
> Depends: bc, libc6 (>= 2.1), libjpeg62, libpaperg (>= 1.0.3-4), libtiff3g,
libz1, netpbm1
> Conflicts: netpbm-nonfree (<= 1:19940301.1-3)
> Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/graphics/netpbm_19940301.2-13.deb
> Size: 541360
> MD5sum: 9b51d6e308bd3fe47c480ae20edb529c
> Description: Graphics conversion tools.
>  Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of
>  different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations.
>  It is based on the pbmplus distribution.
>
>
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