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I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use IM?
Posted: 2014-08-04T20:21:50-07:00
by XnTriq
There is no way I'm purchasing (anything) just to use Image Magick. Please confirm.
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-04T20:35:22-07:00
by fmw42
Why do you think you need to purchase anything?
I believe what you need are free downloads from Microsoft. see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binar ... hp#windows. The downloads you need are at:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=5555
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=14632
I do not use Windows, but one of the Windows users can confirm.
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-05T00:03:08-07:00
by Bonzo
As fmw42 says download an exe file and install it. If you are using pdf's I would install Ghostscript first; you can then run Imagemagick from the command prompt.
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-05T03:32:08-07:00
by snibgo
If you have a working computer, I assume Windows of some sort, you don't need to purchase anything else to use ImageMagick. As Fred (fmw42) and Bonzo say, follow the instructions at
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binar ... hp#windows . It takes about 5 minutes.
I doubt that you will need Microsoft's vcomp100.dll file. One of these is included with ImageMagick.
Microsoft Visual Studio IDE would only be useful if you want to compile ImageMagick yourself, perhaps because you want to modify it. I suggest it is better, at first, to install the binary and use it for a while first. (If you do want to compile it yourself, Cygwin can do this, and this is free.)
My pages (see my signature) contains many examples of using IM with Windows. But I don't have an introductory guide. See Fred's replies at
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26032 The example commands on those links are Unix, not Windows, so you have to change them slightly; see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-06T13:45:30-07:00
by XnTriq
I took a screenshot, but I gather attachments are disabled. I already have a newer version of this installed.
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-06T14:09:17-07:00
by snibgo
What is your question?
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-06T15:40:48-07:00
by fmw42
XnTriq wrote:I took a screenshot, but I gather attachments are disabled. I already have a newer version of this installed.
This forum does not all images to be uploaded. The way to do that is to to upload your images to some free image hosting service such as dropbox.com (public folder) and then put the URLs here.
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-06T17:15:56-07:00
by XnTriq
snibgo wrote:What is your question?
Since I apparently have the newest version of MVS installed on my computer (XP) I'm wondering how to use Image Magick.
Re: I need to ►BUY Microsoft Visual Studio IDE just to use I
Posted: 2014-08-06T17:32:32-07:00
by snibgo
At the command prompt, type:
If it says ...
... then the directory containing ImageMagick isn't on your system path.
If it says something like ...
Code: Select all
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-5 Q16 x64 2014-06-26 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib cairo freetype jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr pangocairo png ps rsvg tiff webp xml zlib
... then you are running ImageMagick.
If it says something different, you can post it here.