[APBeta] AP and graphics processing

[Michael Portuesi]

On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:23 PM, RPEHLM wrote:

> To be quite honest I'm not quite sure what I'm thinking off  
> either! :)  ImageMagick looks 'interesting' to me and I like pushing  
> the boundaries just to see what happens.  I'm definately NOT trying  
> to replicate* something like IRIS (which is free anyway).  What is  
> more is more likely are scripts that would be run against multiple  
> image files; batch-processing if you will.  For example, a thumbnail  
> generator or an image titler.
>
> The command-line ImageMagick utilities are easy to access from  
> APScript.  So they are definately first on the hit list.  The DLL  
> version (what would be the Mac equivalent?) might be more tricky to  
> communicate with.  A standalone 'helper' app, controllable for AP,  
> is definately a possibility but a little further down the road.
>

The Mac equivalent of a DLL is a dynamic library.  They have the  
extension ".dylib".  I have ImageMagick installed on my Macintosh and  
it has a set of dylibs for the ImageMagick core functions.

I've done some work with ImageMagick professionally, and it's a nice  
package.  I still don't understand what you want to do with it in  
relation to AstroPlanner, but when you do get something put together,  
maybe it'll make sense to me.

m.