  "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the
   sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

                    John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand


AUTHOR

  The author is magick-users@imagemagick.org.  This software is NOT
  shareware.  However, I am interested in who might be using it.
  Please consider sending me a picture postcard of the area where
  you live.  Send postcards to

    ImageMagick Studio
    P.O. Box 40
    Landenberg, PA  19350
    USA

  I'm also interested in receiving currency or stamps from around the
  world for my collection.


AVAILABILITY

  ImageMagick is available as

    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.net/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7.tar.gz

  ImageMagick client executables are available for some platforms. See

    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries
    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/mac
    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/windows
    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/vms
    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux

  I want ImageMagick to be of high quality, so if you encounter a
  problem I will investigate.  However, be sure you are using the
  most recent version from

    ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick

  before submitting any bug reports or suggestions.  Report
  any problems via the web-based reporting facility at

    http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-bugs.

WWW

  The official ImageMagick WWW page is

    http://www.imagemagick.org/
    http://www.imagemagick.net/

  To use display as your external image viewer, edit the global
  mail-cap file or your personal mail-cap file .mailrc (located at your
  home directory) and put this entry:

    image/*; display %s


MAILING LIST

  There is a mailing list for discussions and bug reports about
  ImageMagick.  To subscribe send the message

    subscribe magick-user

  to majordomo@imagemagick.org.  You will receive a welcome message
  which tells you how to post messages to the list,
  magick-user@imagemagick.org.


CVS

  ImageMagick is currently under development.  It may be retrieved via
  CVS using the following procedure:

  Use

    export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.imagemagick.org:/ImageMagick"

  or

    setenv CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.imagemagick.org:/ImageMagick"

  to set CVSROOT in the environment (depending on 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 ImageMagick

  If you would like to retrieve the (huge) Windows source package use

    cvs co ImageMagick-NT

  If you  would like to retrieve *everything* associated with
  ImageMagick (useful or not) use

    cvs co ImageMagick-World

DOCUMENTATION

  Open the file index.html in a web browser, or refer to the manual pages
  for the display(1), animate(1), montage(1), import(1), mogrify(1),
  identify(1), composite(1), and convert(1) commands. The ImageMagick(1)
  manual page provides details for command options and will also aid with
  understanding library interfaces. Also read the ImageMagick frequently
  asked questions in the file www/Magick.html.


INSTALLATION

  ImageMagick may be compiled from source code for virtually any modern
  Unix system (including Linux and MacOS X), Microsoft Windows, MacOS9,
  and VMS. Installation instructions may be found in the following files
  (or their HTML equivalents):

    o Unix:

       INSTALL-unix.txt

    o Microsoft Windows:

      INSTALL-windows.txt

    o MacOS 9 (for MacOS X follow the Unix procedure):

      INSTALL-mac.txt:

    o VMS:

      INSTALL-vms.txt

MAGICK DELEGATES

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

    o ImageMagick requires the BZLIB library from

        http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html

      to read and write BZip compressed MIFF images.

    o ImageMagick requires ralcgm from

        http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm

      to read the Computer Image Metafile (CGM) image format. You also
      need Ghostscript (see below).

    o ImageMagick requires 'dcraw' from

        http://www2.primushost.com/~dcoffin/powershot/

      to read raw images from digital cameras.  Try

        convert crw:image image.png

    o ImageMagick requires fig2dev from

        ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig

      to read the Fig image format.

    o ImageMagick requires the FreeType software, version 2.0 or above,
      available as

        http://www.freetype.org/

      to annotate with TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts.

    o ImageMagick requires Ghostscript software (version 7.05 recommended)
      available from

        http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

      to read the Postscript or the Portable Document format. Ghostscript
      is used to annotate an image when the FreeType library is not used,
      or an X server is not available. See the FreeType library above
      for another means to annotate an image. Note, Ghostscript must
      support the ppmraw device (type gs -h to verify). If Ghostscript
      is unavailable, the Display Postscript X11 extension is used to
      rasterize a Postscript document (assuming you define HasDPS and DPS
      is available). The DPS extension is less robust than Ghostscript
      in that it will only rasterize one page of a multi-page document.

      Ghostscript (release 7.0 and later) may optionally install a library
      (libgs). If this library is installed, ImageMagick may be configured
      to use it. Note that Ghostscript provides its own modified version
      of libjpeg and that symbols from this libjpeg may be confused with
      symbols with the stand-alone libjpeg. If conflicts cause JPEG to
      fail (JPEG returns an error regarding expected structure sizes),
      it may be necessary to use Ghostscript's copy of libjpeg for
      ImageMagick, and all delegate libraries which depend on libjpeg,
      or convince Ghostscript to build against an unmodified installed
      JPEG library (and loose compatibility with some Postscript files).

    o ImageMagick requires hp2xx available from

         http://www.gnu.org/software/hp2xx/hp2xx.html

      to read the HP-GL image format. Note that HPGL is a plotter file
      format. HP printers usually accept PCL format rather than HPGL
      format.

    o ImageMagick requires the LCMS library available from

         http://www.littlecms.com/

      to perform ICC CMS color management.

    o ImageMagick requires gnuplot available via anonymous FTP as

         ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz

      to read GNUPLOT plot files (with extension gplt).

    o ImageMagick requires html2ps available from

         http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

      to rasterize HTML files.

    o ImageMagick requires the JBIG-Kit software available via
      HTTP from

         http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/

      or via anonymous FTP as

         ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/JBIG/

      to read the JBIG image format.

    o ImageMagick requires the Independent JPEG Group's software
      available via anonymous FTP as

         ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

      to read the JPEG v1 image format.

      Apply this JPEG patch to Independent JPEG Group's source
      distribution if you want to read lossless jpeg-encoded DICOM
      (medical) images:

         ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/ljpeg-6b.tar.gz

      Use of lossless JPEG is not encouraged. Unless you have a requirement
      to read lossless jpeg-encoded DICOM images, please disregard the patch.

    o ImageMagick requires the JasPer Project's Jasper library version
      1.700.2 available via http from

         http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/

      to read and write the JPEG-2000 format.

    o ImageMagick requires the EXIF library available via http from

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif

      to describe tags produced by most digital camera.

    o ImageMagick requires the MPEG utilities from the MPEG Software
      Simulation Group, which are available via anonymous FTP as

         ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz

      to read or write the MPEG image format.

    o ImageMagick requires the PNG library, version 1.0 or above, from

         http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html

      to read the PNG image format.

    o ImageMagick requires ra_ppm from Greg Ward's Radiance software
      available from

         http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html

      to read the Radiance image format.

    o ImageMagick requires rawtorle from the Utah Raster Toolkit
      available via anonymous FTP as

         ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/dept/OLD/pub/urt-3.1b.tar.Z

      to write the RLE image format.

    o ImageMagick requires scanimage from

         http://www.mostang.com/sane/

      to import an image from a scanner device.

    o ImageMagick requires Sam Leffler's TIFF software available via
      anonymous FTP at

         ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/

      or via HTTP at

         http://www.libtiff.org/

      to read the TIFF image format. It in turn optionally requires the
      JPEG and ZLIB libraries. Support for JPEG, ZIP, and LZW compression
      must be explicitly enabled by editing libtiff Makefiles. The TIFF
      library no longer includes support for LZW compression due to patent
      issues. If you need to use LZW compression, support is available via
      a seperate LZW compression kit (a patch) at the sites listed above.

    o ImageMagick requires libwmf 0.2.5 (or later) from

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/

      to render files in the Windows Meta File (WMF) metafile format
      (16-bit WMF files only, not 32-bit "EMF"). This is the format
      commonly used for Windows clipart (available on CD at your local
      computer or technical book store). WMF support requires the FreeType
      2 library in order to render TrueType and Postscript fonts.

      While ImageMagick uses the libwmflite (parser) component of the
      libwmf package which does not depend on any special libraries,
      the libwmf package as a whole depends on FreeType 2 and either the
      xmlsoft libxml, or expat libraries. Since ImageMagick already uses
      libxml (for reading SVG and to retrieve files via HTTP or FTP),
      it is recommended that the options '--without-expat --with-xml'
      be supplied to libwmf's configure script.

      ImageMagick's WMF renderer provides some of the finest WMF
      rendering available due its use of antialiased drawing algorithms.
      You may select a background color or texture image to render on.
      For example, "-background '#ffffffff'" renders on a transparent
      background while "-texture plasma:fractal" renders on a fractal
      image.

      A free set of Microsoft Windows fonts may be retrieved from
      "http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/".

    o ImageMagick requires the FlashPIX library version 1.2.0 from
      the Digital Imaging Group in order to support the FlashPIX
      format. The FlashPIX library may be obtained from ImageMagick
      anonymous CVS by checking out the 'fpx' module, or retrieving the
      file libfpx-1.2.0.5.tar.gz from the ftp directory.

         ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/.

    o ImageMagick requires an X server for the 'display', 'animate',
      and 'import' commands to work properly. Unix systems usually provide
      an X server as part of their standard installation.

      A free X server for Microsoft Windows is available from

         http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11/

      The Cygwin port of XFree86 may also be used. It is available from

         http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/

      There is a nearly free X server available for Windows and
      Macintosh at

         http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/

    o ImageMagick requires libxml available from

         http://xmlsoft.org/

      to read the SVG image format and to retrieve files from over a
      network via FTP and HTTP.

    o ImageMagick requires the ZLIB library from

         http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

      to read or write the PNG or Zip compressed MIFF images.

    o ImageMagick requires a background texture for the TILE
      format and for the -texture option of montage(1).  You can use
      your own or get samples from

         http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/
