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Subject: Re: Image Libs (Was: Re: devel-announce: ImageMagick and KDE to
From: Steffen Hansen <stefh () mip ! sdu ! dk>
Date: 1999-06-02 13:44:00
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Alex Zepeda wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, I am a bit scared tho, after reading this from the README:
> >
> > MEMORY REQUIREMENTS
> >
> > You should allocate sufficient swap space on your system before
> > running ImageMagick; otherwise, you may experience random server or
> > application crashes. Anything less than 80 megabytes of swap space is
> > likely to cause random crashes.
> >
> > On many systems, you will find that 80 megabytes is insufficient and
> > you will have to allocate more swap space. You should also have at
> > least 32 megabytes of real memory although 64 megabytes or more is
> > recommended.
> >
> > - alex
>
> Face it. If you want to do REAL image manipulation, you need REAL memory.
> I'm not saying that you should waste it, but some things just depend
> heavily on memory. Image processing is one of them.
Yes, but it should still be possible to work with, say, a 1000x1000 window
showing a small part of a 10000x10000 pixel image. I think PhotoShop*
allocates memory in tiles for large images. Is this possible with
ImageMagick?
*) Usually known as PotatoShop, PornoShop or PhotoStop :-)
greetings,
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