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Hi all,
i am a 1st time user of IM.
I really wanted to know if it's possible to just downloaded zip file "ImageMagick-6.6.1-Q16-windows.zip"
unzip it to a location say c:\ and start using it. Do I need to INSTALL IM on my 32 bit windows machine to work?
I have been getting errors while converting PDF files;
snibgo wrote:If you don't install IM properly, how do you think it knows where to find Ghostscript?
so does this mean only unzipping the "ImageMagick-6.6.1-Q16-windows.zip" to a folder and using it does not work?
the problem is I am going to make a distributable application that uses ImageMagic. If I have to install it, there will be a dependency on creating one. Isn't it?
Likewise for Windows. Personally, I don't let the installation change my PATH environment variable because I have multiple versions of IM (Q8 or Q16, old versions, etc) and I want to be explicit about which version I use.
But I always run the installation. If I didn't, I wouldn't expect IM to work properly.
the problem is I am going to make a distributable application that uses ImageMagic
That's fine. The installation for your application must replicate whatever IM installation does.
If you installed from source, you need to pre install any delegate libraries, such as tif, png, jpg, ghostscript, etc and then recompile IM.
see http://www.imagemagick.org/download/delegates/ but I would look for more current ones.
Of course you can use the "ImageMagick-6.6.1-Q16-windows.zip" package. (Why should they provide a binary that doesn't work? ) As the description says, the zip file is basically the Q16 static Win32 package - without installer.
@Ayusman: You should have tried this after downloading (as suggested here):
To verify ImageMagick is working properly, type the following in an MS-DOS Command Prompt window:
convert logo: logo.gif
identify logo.gif
imdisplay logo.gif
Then all the basic operations should work. For PDF files however you need also Ghostscript.
After Ghostscript is installed, ImageMagick can call it - by the Ghostscript registry entry (on Windows). But you could also include the Ghostscript directories into your PATH (or edit directly the delegates.xml).
If you have any problems, install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) or Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x64). 64-bit Windows requires both packages (x86 & x64).
I don't know if this is relevant for your IM version and install as I am not a Windows user.