[APBeta] AP and graphics processing

[RPEHLM]

 >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.
Maybe it'll make sense to me to!

Having fun
Robin

Michael Portuesi wrote:
>
> 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.
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