ImageMagick 6.3.6 Released

ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick
6.3.6.

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose
bitmap images. It
can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats
(about 100)
including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG,
Postscript, SVG,
and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror,
rotate, scale, shear
and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various
special effects,
or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bezier curves.

The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from
the command line
or you can use the features from programs written in your
favorite programming
language. Choose from these interfaces: G2F (Ada),
MagickCore (C), MagickWand
(C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
(C++), JMagick (Java),
L-Magick (Lisp), nMagick (Neko/haXe), MagickNet (.NET),
PascalMagick (Pascal),
PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP), PythonMagick
(Python), RMagick
(Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface,
use ImageMagick
to modify or create images dynamically and automagically.

ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run
binary distribution
or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and
distribute. Its
license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major
operating systems.

Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

      * Format conversion: convert an image from one format
to another (e.g.
        PNG to JPEG)
      * Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an
image
      * Transparency: render portions of an image invisible
      * Draw: add shapes or text to an image
      * Decorate: add a border or frame to an image
      * Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint
an image
      * Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a
group of images
      * Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic
text in an image
      * Image identification: describe the format and
properties of an image
      * Composite: overlap one image over another
      * Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image
canvas
      * Motion picture support: read and write the common
image formats used in
        digital film work
      * Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to
an image or image
        channels
      * High dynamic-range images: accurately represent the
wide range of
        intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from
the brightest direct
        sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows.
      * Large image support: read, process, or write mega-
and giga-pixel image
        sizes
      * Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread
safe and many
        internal algorithms are already threaded to take
advantage of speed-ups
        offered by the dual and quad-core processor
technologies.

Examples of ImageMagick Usage (http://www.imagemagi
ck.org/Usage) shows how
to use ImageMagick from the command-line to accomplish any
of these tasks
and much more.

See http://www.imagemagick.org
 for more information about ImageMagick.

Significant changes since the last official ImageMagick
release, include:

2007-09-29  6.3.6-0 Anthony <anthonygriffith...>
  * Added Scaling 'derivitives' to -distort Arc, so image
arcing is now
    sharp and clear as you approach the center of the
distort.
  * Added  " -set option:distort:viewport 'geometry'
" special option
    that can be used to override the output image size and
offset.
  * Fixed experimental use of -filter and -support in
Resampling (more later).
  * Changed order for coordinate arguments in -distort (for
leastsq addition)

2007-09-22  6.3.6-0 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenangoimage...>
  * Check the API version and quantum depth before loading a
coder module or
    image filter (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-ser
ver/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9780).
  * Add exception to the image filter signature.
  * Get the execution path under Mac OS X.
  * TIFFTAG_STRIPBYTECOUNTS requires a uint32 pointer
(magick/compress.c).
  * Fixed memory leak in CloneString() (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-ser
ver/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9763).
  * Set S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP mode when writing a file
in
    CopyDelegateFile().
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