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Which is better?

ImageMagick
14 (53.8%)
GD
12 (46.2%)

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Voting closed: August 23, 2002, 02:44:19 AM

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Offline suzkaw

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Which is better GD or imagemagick?
« on: August 23, 2002, 02:44:19 AM »
I am looking through the documentation of both GD and ImageMagick but I can't decide which I should go with. :( Any way my host is Linux running Apache 1.3.26 (Unix).  And I am not realy sure on where to download the files. Do I just place them above my public_html and then point to that in the settings or place them in a directory inside the public_html and point it there?  

Also once I download one of the programs and get it to work will I be able to thumbnail the large photos?  I think that is what they are for.

Sorry for the basic questions.  
Eric

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Re: Which is better GD or imagemagick?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2002, 02:00:59 AM »
Neither is better IMHO - the way to go is NetPBM. You can download the binaries and put 'em in any web diretory and point to them. The quality is way better then thumbnails created with GD (haven't tried ImageMagick).

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Which is better GD or imagemagick?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2002, 07:30:11 PM »
Can u put your binaries on Lycos and link to them?

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Which is better GD or imagemagick?
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2002, 05:24:30 AM »
how about windows support for NetPBM?
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2002, 11:56:25 PM »
Quote from: Big_Fish
Can u put your binaries on Lycos and link to them?

Don't know - haven't tried it. But I guess you are able to upload and if you are able to chmod files so that they are executable it should work.

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how about windows support for NetPBM?

just download them here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130

also didn't try them myself - I don't do windows  :wink:

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Which is better GD or imagemagick?
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2002, 11:09:09 PM »
Hi,
how to I point to the directory the right way? Do I have to CHMOD something? Ich have copied the binary files to for e.g. http://www.website.de/netpbm

In 4images settings i entered "/netpbm" but i always get this error message:

NetPBM konnte nicht erkannt werden. Entweder sie haben den Pfad falsch angegeben oder NetPBM ist nicht installiert.

Can someone please help me?

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« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2002, 11:50:54 PM »
I am using Win 2K server, and have had problems with NETPBM. Then installed Imagemagick and works fine and thumbnail quality is great !

Put imagemagick into any directory and in 4images set:

drive:\imagemagick\convert


Thats all !!

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ImageMagick Quality
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2003, 02:21:21 AM »
To get great image quality with ImageMagick you will have to change the following file.

In "image_utils.php" file, edit the following line


".$quality." -antialias -sample $width"."x"."$height \"$src\"


Change the word '-sample' to '-geometry'

".$quality." -antialias -geometry $width"."x"."$height \"$src\"


You will get brilliant quality.

Sam