Problems with installation

[Robert Watcher]

That would be logo.pnm. Try the identify command again. It seems likely it will work that suggests ImageMagick may be installed properly and working.

Sorry about the typo.

That printed out a long list of RGB values and other specifics about the file. Looks like it is working. Now I wonder why my hosting client websites on the same server, cannot access ImageMagick when their application is set to /user/local/bin/ ? Any ideas - or should it work?


Thank you so much for your time helping out by the way. I truly value it.

Rob

[Robert Watcher]

Seems all is fine when just writing code in PHP to generate images - example this reflection code that I got off of php.net. I generated this .png image from a .jpg file and added the reflection - - - without any need to reference the ImageMagick path (/user/local/bin/):




So I have to figure out now how to make it work with applications such as a popular one that my photography clients use that is called ProofBuddy. It requires ImageMagick to transform the images to sepia etc. Even though there are installations of it on this same server that I have been trying to get ImageMagick working on, ProofBuddy requires a path (I have /user/local/bin/ entered in a test one) and won't recognize my ImageMagick installation. Any ideas?



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[magick]

Is that /user/local/bin or /usr/local/bin? Otherwise we can't help. Our scope is limited to ImageMagick.

[Robert Watcher]

Is that /user/local/bin or /usr/local/bin? Otherwise we can't help. Our scope is limited to ImageMagick.

I've tried both /user/local/bin and /user/local/bin/ and other combinations. It is the path to ImageMagick that the ProofBuddy software is looking for. There is an AutoRecognize function that produces an error when it can't be found. This software runs on all kinds of servers with ImageMagick, so I'm not sure what the issue is my mine.

Actually how I found out about it, was that earlier this week I moved one of my hosting customers from another managed server that I have, to my new dedicated server that I manage. I had made sure that GD library was installed, but not ImageMagick. She contacted me today to let me know that her Proofbuddy software would no longer work and was throwing up an ImageMagick error - it was running just fine on the other server where ImageMagick was installed. That is why I decided to install ImageMagick on the new server today - and am not exactly sure why the ProofBuddy app would work before and not now.

Is there a difference between the way that I was able to access ImageMagic to create the image above using a php script - and calling ImageMagick through the /usr/local/bin path? I'm just trying to become more educated as I am growing my hosting business and will have to deal with this more.

BTW - the error message that I get from ProofBuddy is "ImageMagick convert not found. The convert command, part of the ImageMagick library cannot be found at ."



Rob

[Robert Watcher]

I THINK THAT I HAVE IT ALL WORKED OUT. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP. It has been a real learning experience, and I am the better for it.

Now I just have to work on learning ImageMagick coding (I am very familiar with GD in many of my scripts that I have written). It looks very versatile and simpler coding, compared to GD.

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[fmw42]

what was the final issue?

for general reading see

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/