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From: cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com (Cristy)
Subject: ImageMagick Release 4.0.5, X11 image manipulation and conversion
Date: 21 Apr 98 20:20:36 GMT

ImageMagick, version 4.0.5, is a package for display and interactive
manipulation of images for the X Window System.  It is written in C and
interfaces to the X library, and therefore does not require any
proprietary toolkit in order to compile.  Although the software is
copyrighted, it is available for free and can be redistributed without
fee.

The ImageMagick image display program can display an image on any
workstation screen running an X server.  It can read and write many of
the more popular image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and
Photo CD. In addition you can interactively resize, rotate, sharpen,
color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your
completed work in the same or differing image format.

In addition to the image display program, ImageMagick also has command
line programs that perform these functions:

    Convert an image from one format to another 
    Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image 
    Create a framed thumbnail of an image 
    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 
    Segment an image based on the color histogram 
    Describe the format and characteristics of an image 
    Retrieve, list, or print files from a remote network site 

ImageMagick is available as

   ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-4.0.5.tar.gz

ImageMagick client executables are available for some platforms. See

   ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/binaries
   ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/mac
   ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/nt
   ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/vms
   ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/linux

The official ImageMagick WWW page is

   http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html

Finally, there is an object-oriented Perl and Python interface to ImageMagick.
See

  http://mystic.es.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick/www/perl.html
  http://starship.skyport.net/crew/zack/pymagick/
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