PythonMagick is the Python binding of the ImageMagick library. ImageMagick® is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in.

Does anyone know anything about PythonMagick? I've got a project that could use ImageMagick, so I went looking around for PythonMagick, and I'm a bit lost. I was able to download the PythonMagick source from the ImageMagick site, but I'm on Windows and don't have the ability to compile it. I found reference to a windows installer for PythonMagick on the wxPython wiki, but the links take me to procoders.net, which seems to have abandoned the project (at least I couldn't find anything to download).

So what's the state of this project? Actually, I'm wondering if I would gain anything by using PythonMagick anyway. I'm going to be distributing a py2exe created executable that needs to do some image manipulation. Would I still need ImageMagick seperately installed on the client machine to use PythonMagick anyway? Or could it all be self contained? If I'd need to install ImageMagick on client machines anyway, I guess I can just use the commandline interface to ImageMagick from Python.

Adam Endicott wrote: Does anyone know anything about PythonMagick? I've got a project that could use ImageMagick, so I went looking around for PythonMagick, and I'm a bit lost.

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I was able to download the PythonMagick source from the ImageMagick site, but I'm on Windows and don't have the ability to compile it. I found reference to a windows installer for PythonMagick on the wxPython wiki, but the links take me to procoders.net, which seems to have abandoned the project (at least I couldn't find anything to download). So what's the state of this project? Actually, I'm wondering if I would gain anything by using PythonMagick anyway.

I'm going to be distributing a py2exe created executable that needs to do some image manipulation. Would I still need ImageMagick seperately installed on the client machine to use PythonMagick anyway? Or could it all be self contained?

If I'd need to install ImageMagick on client machines anyway, I guess I can just use the commandline interface to ImageMagick from Python. Why is PIL *(Python Image Library) not suitable to do the graphics? Adam Endicott wrote: Does anyone know anything about PythonMagick? I've got a project that could use ImageMagick, so I went looking around for PythonMagick, and I'm a bit lost.

I was able to download the PythonMagick source from the ImageMagick site, but I'm on Windows and don't have the ability to compile it. I found reference to a windows installer for PythonMagick on the wxPython wiki, but the links take me to procoders.net, which seems to have abandoned the project (at least I couldn't find anything to download). So what's the state of this project? Actually, I'm wondering if I would gain anything by using PythonMagick anyway. I'm going to be distributing a py2exe created executable that needs to do some image manipulation.

Would I still need ImageMagick seperately installed on the client machine to use PythonMagick anyway? Or could it all be self contained? If I'd need to install ImageMagick on client machines anyway, I guess I can just use the commandline interface to ImageMagick from Python. There is a boost-less interface to imagemagick on the pylab project page at Sourceforge. Last I checked it compiled for windows.

But, I haven't really played with it for a while. You might find the old binaries there useful for at least some version of Image Magick.

-Travis Oliphant. Adam Endicott wrote: Claudio Grondi wrote: Why is PIL *(Python Image Library) not suitable to do the graphics? Claudio I am using PIL for some other things, but what I need ImageMagick for is to convert a PDF into a series of jpegs (one per page). Its the only tool I've found to do this at a good enough resolution. What about GraphicsMagick.

The package seems to be not very easy to use even if a COM ActiveX object is available for Windows and there is an executable with command line interface, but the documentation is poor. Originally derived from ImageMagick 5.5.2 it is available at: I would be glad to hear how to do convert a PDF into a series of jpegs if it will become possible using it. PythonMagick interface to ImageMagick seems to be no more supported and if I remember it right, there was shortly a thread about it not really helping to work with it on Python 2.4.2 - that is how I came to know about GraphicsMagick. Hope GraphicsMagick can what ImageMagick could, so this hint turns out useful. Adam Endicott wrote: Claudio Grondi wrote: Why is PIL *(Python Image Library) not suitable to do the graphics?