"Savageduck" wrote

| Can you help him?
|
| Since he hasn't responded to any of our questions yet, probably not.
Unless
| of course you are his self-appointed spokesperson.

Maybe Carlos and Phillip are 2 aliases for the
marketing person at ImageMagick. That would
explain a lot. Phillip asked what seems to be an
unimportant question in an almost childish way,
with no context, and then checked out. While
Carlos uses every post to sing the praises of
ImageMagick.

I've looked into ImageMagick before as a
possible programming tool for graphics operations.
I've never seen the sense of it. As a resource for
programming it's very clunky and indirect, having
no value in actual usage because the operations
are all inside. A programmer is a cook. ImageMagick
is a waiter's order window. You tell it what you
want. It loads an image, does that operation,
then resaves the image.

As a command-line tool.... A vast collection
of graphic editing functions that only work from
the command line? Only Linux people could
think that makes sense. Here's an example of
drawing a line across an image, from their drawing
tutorial:

convert rose: -fill none -stroke white -draw 'line 5,40 65,5' rose_raw.png

How do you know the coordinates to draw from/to
without a GUI? You don't, of course. Then that
one operation has to resave the image. It's
nonsensical.

But I suppose he has
a point in a very limited context: If you only
have Linux and if you don't have any tool to
do batch thumbnail production... and that's what
you want to do... and you don't mind spending a
couple of hours learning commandline incantations...
and you don't much care about the quality of
the thumbnails... then ImageMagick might be a
very good choice. It could also be handy for similar,
simple batch tasks like resizing hundreds of images.
But on Windows (and no doubt on Mac) there are
plenty of options for things like that.