[fpc-devel] Problems with ImageMagick MagickWand

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Andrew Brunner wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I presently require ImageMagick to be installed along with my software.
>
> The reason why I use it is merely to resize images from cameras downto about 
> 1024xY where Y varies to keep aspect ratio intact.  I used to use FPImage to 
> stretchdraw on a canvas but at the time it was really slow. Slowing down 
> directory listings in the cloud (images served via http are converted in 
> real-time)
>
> My scaling needs are called hundreds of times concurrently for thumbnails as 
> well.  So whenever the user opens a file the server must generate 1 thumbnail 
> for each image in the directory. ImageMagick works fast on Linux and Windows.
>
> Presently I cannot get even a simple program that uses ImageMagick to build 
> on darwin.  I suspect the /ImageMagick/config build the libraries to x86_64.
>
> It would be nice if i could remove my dependency of ImageMagick. Does anyone 
> know the status of FPImage etc. to speed up image scaling native to FPC?

No work is done on this, and to my knowledge, none is planned.

Michael.