Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks. I accept that that is the way it is, but the way it is IS STUPID.
I am sick and tired of all this stupidity. The sensible thing is to say "Don't use ImageMagick/PythonMagick".
Abandoning this project in disgust after 5 days of going round in circles and getting no help.

I see from others questions being asked that even though you have downloaded 11 MB of src code, you still don't have routines to process .jpg files, or .png files.
What is the use of an image-processing "package" that can't open .jpg and .png, (or anything else)?

So I tried installing Anaconda for Linux and Python 3, since it suggested it had lots of libraries in with it (I'm desperate). After a 654 MB (compressed) download (!), it installed OK. I got given Python-3.7 as a bonus. When I ran it with "anaconda-navigator" I got 3 warnings "The conda.compat ...

Yes, I have read INSTALL and README, but I have no idea what the options mean or what I want. README says "Requists" for installation are boost, boost-python, python 2.5 and Magick++ 6.2+. I have tried to install these from the Ubuntu repositories, but boost and boost-python are not found, and ...

As you have probably guessed, I haven't a clue what I'm doing. Where do I get MagickCore-6.8.6+ from, so I can build PythonMagick? Or what should I install from the Ubuntu repositories? I have Python-3.6.7 and my app starts: #!/usr/bin/env python3 # Photo Editor PhotoEditorVersion = "0.99" # wx libs ...

This problem effectively makes ImageMagick unusable.

How can I tell WHAT CAN BE imported? Something like "import *list all".

I have a PHP script which uses ImageMagick routines to manipulate images. I am converting this script to Python-3.6 on Ubuntu_18.04. I have tried "import ImageMagick" and lots of variations, all not found. Then I discovered PythonMagick, also "not found" so I downloaded http://www.imagemagick.org ...