QuickMagick

A free tool for easily accessing ImageMagick command line tools from Ruby programs
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Ahmed ElDawy
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://rubyforge.org/users/aseldawy/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 1.2 MB

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QuickMagick Description

A free tool for easily accessing ImageMagick command line tools from Ruby programs QuickMagick is an open source library that will allow you to create and manipulate images. When you are faced with a problem that requires high quality manipulation of images you can use QuickMagick.These are some situation when QuickMagick will be useful for you:· Suppose you built an image gallery site that allows users to upload images. You can use QuickMagick to check uploaded images dimensions and make thumbnails for them.· Generate captchas to check whether the user is a robot or a human.· Generate graphical reports and charts to the user based on some calculations.· Convert uploaded images to a format usable by your application. For example, you can transform .pdf files to .jpg so that you can display them at your web site. Here are some key features of "QuickMagick": · Open an existing image from disk and determine basic info like width, height. · Open an image from blob. For example, an image read from an upload form. · Do basic and advanced operations on images like resize, rotate, shear, motion blur and other. · Create an image from scratch and draw basic elements on it like line, circle and text. This allows making captchas for example. · Combine images using ImageList to make a multipage or animated images. · API is very simple and powerful. · Minimizes disk access by calling command line tools only when required. Requirements: · Ruby What's New in This Release: · Added a method revert! to clear all your changes · Added helper methods to create colors for you · Fixed a bug with resizing an ImageList with different sizes for each image · Added a feature to combine consecutive draw commands. This helps making .svg files with multiple shapes


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