Installing GraphicsMagick

Executive Summary

GraphicsMagick provides a comprehensive collection of utilities, programming interfaces, and GUIs, to support file format conversion, image processing, and 2D vector rendering.

GraphicsMagick is originally based on ImageMagick from ImageMagick Studio (which was originally written by John Cristy at Dupont). The goal of GraphicsMagick is to provide the highest quality product possible while encouraging open and active participation from all interested developers. The GraphicsMagick usage license is designed to allow it to be used for any application, including proprietary or GPLed applications. Please see the file Copyright.txt for the GraphicsMagick licence.

Availability

The master ftp site for GraphicsMagick distributions is ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/. Bandwidth on this site is very limited, so it is recommended to download from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73485 if possible.

GraphicsMagick is a continual work in progress. The very latest code is available from CVS. GraphicsMagick may be retrieved via CVS using the following procedure:

To use CVS over SSH:

export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=":ext:anoncvs@cvs.graphicsmagick.org:/GraphicsMagick"

or to use CVS with its built-in (and insecure) pserver protocol:

export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.graphicsmagick.org:/GraphicsMagick"

to set CVSROOT in the environment (adjust for your shell), or prepend -d followed by the CVS root to every command. For example:

cvs -d ":pserver:anonymous@cvs ...

For brevity the following examples assume that CVSROOT is set in the environment:

cvs login
[ enter "anonymous" ]
cvs co GraphicsMagick

If you would like to retrieve the (huge) Windows source package which includes the core GraphicsMagick sources along with all necessary third-party libraries use:

cvs co GraphicsMagick-NT

If you would like to retrieve everything associated with GraphicsMagick (useful or not) use:

cvs co GraphicsMagick-World

Documentation

Open the file index.html in a web browser, or refer to the gm(1) manual page. Also read the GraphicsMagick frequently asked questions in the file www/FAQ.html.

Installation

GraphicsMagick may be compiled from source code for virtually any modern Unix system (including Linux and MacOS X) and Microsoft Windows. Installation instructions may be found in the following files (or their HTML equivalents):

Add-On Libraries & Programs

To further enhance the capabilities of GraphicsMagick, you may want to get these programs or libraries. Note that the Windows source package (equivalent to CVS module "GraphicsMagick-NT") includes (and builds) all of the library-based packages listed here.


Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 GraphicsMagick Group
Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio
Copyright (C) 1999 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

This program is covered by multiple licenses, which are described in Copyright.txt. You should have received a copy of Copyright.txt with this package; otherwise see http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/Copyright.html.