What exactly is Image Magick supposed to do ?

[marcamillion]

Is it supposed to enable the admin to resize all the pics to a pre-defined size ? What will this do to the actual size of the normal pic ? Will it make it smaller in pixel size ? or make the resolution lower ? Or will it eliminate the normal size altogether leaving just the thumbnail and the "mini-normal" which is shown in the gallery above the film strip ?
   I tried using it but it never did any resizing. Also, when I chose delete normal pic, it made the pic folder smaller because it deleted the biggest size pic.
  Is there anyway to make it resize the biggest size pic to a specified size, without too much distortion ? If so, how do I do this ?

[Joachim Müller]

ImageMagick is an additional library (as well as GD) that enables PHP on your webserver to manipulate images. Coppermine needs such a tool (either GD or ImageMagick) to create thumbnails, intermediate size pics and so on. The ImageMagick library in itself can do other manipulations as well, but not all of them are used by coppermine.
If you want to find out what ImageMagick is capable of, visit http://www.imagemagick.org - there are packages as well available for download that you can install on your client to play with them and see what ImageMagick can do.

PHP can do some image manipulation "tricks" if either GD or IM is installed, take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

For you as user of coppermine all this doesn't matter: coppermine is capable of some things, others come as a mod, other features will have to be coded by you.

GauGau

[gmarik]

How much time and experience does it takes to make a ImageMagick Install on a FreeBSD platform overall, 20 minutes or so?

[gogga]

How much time and experience does it takes to make a ImageMagick Install on a FreeBSD platform overall, 20 minutes or so?

i'm on my fifth hour

[Joachim Müller]

googled "ImageMagick and FreeBSD" - all I could find where people reporting problems, no solutions. At least some say they have managed to install it, but won't tell how... Long live dependencies! :wink:

GauGau