Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Good idea! I have just looked at inkscape and it has command line processing. That could well be a better bet than imagemagick. I will investigate further. Thanks.

Thanks for your help and suggestions. I have decided to give up trying to install imagemagick 6.9 from source. As all I want to do is render large batches of .svg files into some bitmap form, I am going to investigate cairo. After all imagemagic uses cairo but is (for my needs) burdened with a vast ...

I will have a go at installing 6.9. from source. I assume that if I am running 6.6 these 'delegates' are somewhere on my computer at the moment. What are they called? I only need the one for .svg and .bmp. If I know their names I can Find them and give the path to configure. Is that right?

I have tried playing with the config but it's not installing everything. Sorry guys I think I am out of my depth here. I really don't know how to set the config options. And I don't expect you to waste your time teaching me. I will just have to live with the memory leaks on 6.7.7. and wait for the ...

I managed to compile and install from the source ImageMagick 6.9.3-2 Q16 x86_64 2016-01-28 Thought I was doing well. But tried it out to display a jpg and got display: no decode delegate for this image format `JPEG' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/501. This is obviously some kind of installation ...

imagemagick 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3
2014/03/06
is what is in the ubuntu repositary - thats what I have installed
what is the latest version?

Yes sorry I didnt say Imagemagick 6.7.7

I am using mogrify to process batches of 1365 .svg files into .bmp. After mogrify has finished there is 2.9 Mb less free Ram. (as seen in HTOP) This would not be a great problem except I am repeating the process hundreds of times as part of a shell script. I want to stress that the problem is what ...