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| This is Magick++, the object-oriented C++ API to the ImageMagick |
| image-processing library, the most comprehensive open-source image |
| processing solution available. Read the release notes for Magick++. |
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| Magick++ supports an object model which is inspired by PerlMagick. |
| Magick++ executes faster than PerlMagick since it is accessed from a |
| compiled language rather than from a scripting language. This makes it more |
| suitable for Web CGI programs which must start-up and execute quickly. |
| Images support implicit reference counting so that copy constructors and |
| assignment incur almost no cost. The cost of actually copying an image (if |
| necessary) is done just before modification and this copy is managed |
| automatically by Magick++. De-referenced copies are automatically deleted. |
| The image objects support value (rather than pointer) semantics so it is |
| trivial to support multiple generations of an image in memory at one time. |
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| Magick++ provides integrated support for the Standard Template Library (STL) |
| so that the powerful containers available (e.g. deque, vector, list, and |
| map) can be used to write programs similar to those possible with PERL & |
| PerlMagick. STL-compatable template versions of ImageMagick's list-style |
| operations are provided so that operations may be performed on multiple |
| images stored in STL containers. |
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| Documentation |
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| Detailed documentation are provided for all Magick++ classes, class methods, |
| and template functions which comprise the API. |
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| Obtaining Magick++ |
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| Magick++ is included as part of ImageMagick source releases and may be |
| retrieved via ftp or Subversion. |
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| Installation |
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| Once you have the sources available, follow these detailed installation |
| instructions for UNIX and Windows. |
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| Usage |
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| A helper script named Magick++-config is installed under Unix which assists |
| with recalling compilation options required to compile and link programs |
| which use Magick++. For example, the following command will compile and |
| link the source file example.cpp to produce the executable example (notice |
| that quotes are backward quotes): |
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| c++ `Magick++-config --cxxflags --cppflags --ldflags --libs` \ |
| -o example example.cpp |
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| Windows users may get started by manually editing a project file for one of |
| the Magick++ demo programs. |
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| Reporting Bugs |
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| Please report any bugs via the Magick++ Bug Tracking System at |
| http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/. |
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| Related Packages |
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| Users who are interested in displaying their images at video game rates on a |
| wide number of platforms and graphic environments (e.g. Windows, X11, BeOS, |
| and Linux/CGI) may want to try PtcMagick, which provides a simple interface |
| between Magick++ and OpenPTC. |
