I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use IM?

[XnTriq]

There is no way I'm purchasing (anything) just to use Image Magick. Please confirm.

[fmw42]

Why do you think you need to purchase anything?

I believe what you need are free downloads from Microsoft. see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binar ... hp#windows. The downloads you need are at:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=5555
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=14632

I do not use Windows, but one of the Windows users can confirm.

[Bonzo]

As fmw42 says download an exe file and install it. If you are using pdf's I would install Ghostscript first; you can then run Imagemagick from the command prompt.

[snibgo]

If you have a working computer, I assume Windows of some sort, you don't need to purchase anything else to use ImageMagick. As Fred (fmw42) and Bonzo say, follow the instructions at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binar ... hp#windows . It takes about 5 minutes.

I doubt that you will need Microsoft's vcomp100.dll file. One of these is included with ImageMagick.

Microsoft Visual Studio IDE would only be useful if you want to compile ImageMagick yourself, perhaps because you want to modify it. I suggest it is better, at first, to install the binary and use it for a while first. (If you do want to compile it yourself, Cygwin can do this, and this is free.)

My pages (see my signature) contains many examples of using IM with Windows. But I don't have an introductory guide. See Fred's replies at viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26032 The example commands on those links are Unix, not Windows, so you have to change them slightly; see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/

[XnTriq]

I took a screenshot, but I gather attachments are disabled. I already have a newer version of this installed.

[snibgo]

What is your question?

[fmw42]

I took a screenshot, but I gather attachments are disabled. I already have a newer version of this installed.

This forum does not all images to be uploaded. The way to do that is to to upload your images to some free image hosting service such as dropbox.com (public folder) and then put the URLs here.

[XnTriq]

What is your question?

Since I apparently have the newest version of MVS installed on my computer (XP) I'm wondering how to use Image Magick.

[snibgo]

At the command prompt, type:

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convert -version

If it says ...

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Invalid drive specification

... then the directory containing ImageMagick isn't on your system path.

If it says something like ...

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Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-5 Q16 x64 2014-06-26 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib cairo freetype jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr pangocairo png ps rsvg tiff webp xml zlib

... then you are running ImageMagick.

If it says something different, you can post it here.