differences between 6.2.x and 6.5.x

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cstueben

differences between 6.2.x and 6.5.x

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Hi there,

can anyone please tell me the possible differences of the command line options / usage of "convert" in versions 6.2.x and 6.5.x of ImageMagick (on Linux). I have a special gallery TYPO3-Extension which explicitly runs with ImageMagick 6.2.x only but not with 6.5.x.

With best regards

Christian
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Re: differences between 6.2.x and 6.5.x

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There are lots of differences and improvements but mostly they should be backward compatible.

The biggest different is probably using -define jpeg:size={WIDTH}x{HEIGHT}
instead of the overloaded image creation size setting -size {WIDTH}x{HEIGHT}
See IM Examples, Thumbnail generation
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#profiles
and JPEG reading settings...
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#jpg_read
Anthony Thyssen -- Webmaster for ImageMagick Example Pages
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/
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