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<P><SPAN STYLE="background: transparent"><FONT SIZE=3><I>Legacy
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN STYLE="background: transparent"><A HREF="http://www.graphicsmagick.org/1.1/" TARGET="_top">1.1.14</A>
(Released June 5, 2008) <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73485" TARGET="_top">download</A></SPAN></I></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN STYLE="background: transparent"><A HREF="http://www.graphicsmagick.org/1.2/" TARGET="_top">1.2.5</A>
(Released July 25, 2008) <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73485" TARGET="_top">download</A></SPAN></I></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3><I><SPAN STYLE="background: transparent">Development
Branch:</SPAN></I></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT>1.3 (snapshots only) <A HREF="download.html">download</A></P>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><I>[ Check <A HREF="http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/" TARGET="_top">http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/</A>
for the latest version of this page. ]</I></P>
<P><I>GraphicsMagick</I> is the swiss army knife of image processing.
It provides a robust collection of tools and libraries which support
reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats
including important formats like <A HREF="motion-picture.html">DPX</A>,
GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, SVG, and TIFF. GraphicsMagick
supports huge images on systems that support large files, and has
been tested with gigapixel-size images. <I>GraphicsMagick</I> can
create new images on the fly, making it suitable for building dynamic
Web applications. <I>GraphicsMagick</I> may be used to resize,
rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and
save the result in the same or differing image format. Image
processing operations are available from the command line, as well as
through C, C++, Perl, or Windows COM programming interfaces.
Extensions are available from third-parties to support <A HREF="programming.html">programming</A>
in Tcl, and Ruby. With some modification, language extensions for
ImageMagick may be used.</P>
<P><I>GraphicsMagick</I> is originally derived from <A HREF="http://www.imagemagick.org/" TARGET="_top">ImageMagick</A>
5.5.2. Since the branch from ImageMagick, many improvements have been
made (<A HREF="NEWS.html">see news</A>) by <A HREF="AUTHORS.html">many
authors</A> using an open development model. GraphicsMagick is more
efficient than ImageMagick (<A HREF="BENCHMARKS.html">see benchmark
report</A>) so it gets the job done faster using fewer resources.
<I>GraphicsMagick</I> is available for free, may be used to support
both open and proprietary applications, and may be redistributed
without fee.</P>
<P><I><SPAN STYLE="background: transparent">Gr</SPAN></I><I>aphicsMagick</I>
is <A HREF="Copyright.html">copyrighted</A> by the GraphicsMagick
Group as well as many others. <I>GraphicsMagick</I> is dististributed
under an X11-style license (“MIT License”), which is
approved by the <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/" TARGET="_top">Open
Source Initiative</A> and declared by the <A HREF="http://www.fsf.org/">FSF</A>
to be compatible with the <A HREF="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html">GPL
Version 2</A> .</P>
<P>Here are just a few <A HREF="../images/examples.jpg">examples</A>
of what <I>GraphicsMagick</I> can do:</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Convert an image from one format to another
(e.g. TIFF to JPEG)</FONT></P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add
special effects to an image </FONT>
</P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Create a montage of image thumbnails </FONT>
</P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Create a transparent image suitable for use on
the Web</FONT></P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Turn a group of images into a GIF animation
sequence</FONT></P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Create a composite image by combining several
separate images </FONT>
</P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Draw shapes or text on an image </FONT>
</P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Decorate an image with a border or frame </FONT>
</P>
<LI><P><FONT SIZE=3>Describe the format and characteristics of an
image</FONT></P>
</UL>
<P><I>GraphicsMagick</I> is quite portable, and compiles under almost
every general purpose operating system that runs on 32-bit or 64-bit
CPUs. <I>GraphicsMagick</I> is available for virtually any Unix or
Unix-like system, including Linux. It also runs under <A HREF="INSTALL-windows.html">Windows</A>
'98 and later ('98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP), and MacOS-X.</P>
<P>Major developments in GraphicsMagick 1.2:</P>
<UL>
<LI><P>Stellar support for SMPTE DPX format as used by the motion
picture industry for film frames. <A HREF="motion-picture.html">Read
about it</A>!</P>
<LI><P>TIFF format support is completely re-written to support all
subformats, an arbitrary number of sample bits, floating point
types, and improved performance.</P>
<LI><P>Support for ITU Rec.601 and Rec.709 colorspaces (RGB and
Luma).</P>
<LI><P>A huge number of bug fixes, performance improvements, and
minor features.</P>
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