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My biggest problem with ImageMagick is the command-line API. I never use it enough to learn it off by heart, but it's not intuitive enough to quickly pick up a
by akamaka 17y ago
My biggest problem with ImageMagick is the command-line API. I never use it enough to learn it off by heart, but it's not intuitive enough to quickly pick up again when I need it.
Unfortunately, GraphicsMagick seems to use the same paradigm, so from my perspective, it isn't better at all.
Can anyone suggest any other libraries?
- kree10 17y agoThey are pretty much the same, but GraphicsMagick's big CLI improvement over ImageMagick is that everything's based off an executable called 'gm'. IM's horribly generic 'convert' becomes 'gm convert', etc. I'm not going to defend their CLIs beyond that though. The fact that 'mogrify' modifies an image file in-place and 'convert' doesn't has bitten me more than once.
- natch 17y agoNot another library, but a solution to the problem you mention. Capture each command line, even one-offs, in scripts. Then later you can reuse that script without having to figure out the command line options again. You could say this is just shifting the problem to a new place: you now have to relocate the old scripts you wrote. Well, that's a much easier problem.