Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks for the tip zhaoley.
It seems a shame that no-one is maintaining this extension any more. I find it very useful.

Thanks for your reply. Scale uses a simpler algorithm that just averages blocks of pixels. Resize uses more complicated methods to avoid aliasing artifacts. Ahh that makes sense. So "scale" is probably a no-no then. In which case using either of the PHP extensions is (in this test at least) only 4 ...

I was interested in expanding Bonzo’s speed tests to include MagickWand For PHP. Specifically I wanted to compare Imagick vs. MagickWandForPHP. I wasn’t interested in comparing functionality (which differs between the two extensions) – I only wanted to know which one was faster. Test were run timing ...

MagickWandForPHP 1.0.9 will not compile against the currently released versions of ImageMagick. I don't know which version of ImageMagick the devs compiled it against but I tried ImageMagick-6.7.5-7 as well as the allegedly "approved" version 6.3.5-9 as specified in INSTALL (which is wrong since it ...

Bit of a late reply I know but I'll post for the benefit of others.

I believe MagickWand-config is only installed if you compile ImageMagick from source. I installed it from an rpm (on Centos) and it wasn't there.

As far I am concerned MagickWandForPHP 1.0.9 is broken -> fails to compile. I don't know which version of ImageMagick the devs compiled it against but I tried ImageMagick-6.7.5-7 as well as the allegedly "approved" version 6.3.5-9 as specified in INSTALL (which is wrong since it's < the minimum ...