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List:       imagemagick-user
Subject:    Re: [magick-users] Re: libEMF library
From:       Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen () simple ! dallas ! tx ! us>
Date:       2002-10-02 19:32:49
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Vadim Plessky wrote:

> Hi Dom!
>
> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 7:55 pm, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> |  For the record, ImageMagick is a great library. That said, it's handling
> | of EMF is non-existant, WMF is good (mainly because libwmf does all of the
> | heavy lifting) and its SVG, PS, and PDF support are all fairly abysmal.
> | ImageMagick also tends to be slow and heavy when being used for a general

Thanks, Dom. :-)

The WMF rendering from ImageMagick is vastly better than any of the
libwmf utilities are currently capable of producing.  The quality of
renderings usually surpasses Windows itself.  The only part of libwmf
that ImageMagick uses is the WMF parser (constituted by some four
source files).  Maybe ImageMagick is doing some "heavy lifting"  too?

It is true that ImageMagick's polygon renderer should be at least 10X
faster than it is now.  It is true that ImageMagick's SVG renderer is
far from complete.  It is true that ImageMagick depends entirely on
Ghostscript to rasterise Postscript and PDF files, and it is also true
that ImageMagick currently only writes rasterized Postscript and PDF
files.

The public releases of ImageMagick are slow because its principle
author (Cristy) has selected a default pixel size which is usually
reserved for medical imagery.  ImageMagick is actually fairly snappy
when it is compiled for 32-bit pixels, like most other graphics
software.

Bob
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http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen

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