1 This is Magick++, the object-oriented C++ API to the ImageMagick 2 image-processing library, the most comprehensive open-source image processing 3 solution available. Read the release notes for Magick++. 4 5 Magick++ supports an object model which is inspired by PerlMagick. Magick++ 6 executes faster than PerlMagick since it is accessed from a compiled language 7 rather than from a scripting language. This makes it more suitable for Web CGI 8 programs which must start-up and execute quickly. Images support implicit 9 reference counting so that copy constructors and assignment incur almost no 10 cost. The cost of actually copying an image (if necessary) is done just before 11 modification and this copy is managed automatically by Magick++. De-referenced 12 copies are automatically deleted. The image objects support value (rather than 13 pointer) semantics so it is trivial to support multiple generations of an 14 image in memory at one time. 15 16 Magick++ provides integrated support for the Standard Template Library (STL) so 17 that the powerful containers available (e.g. deque, vector, list, and map) can 18 be used to write programs similar to those possible with PERL & PerlMagick. 19 STL-compatable template versions of ImageMagick's list-style operations are 20 provided so that operations may be performed on multiple images stored in STL 21 containers. 22 23 Documentation 24 25 Detailed documentation are provided for all Magick++ classes, class methods, 26 and template functions which comprise the API. 27 28 Obtaining Magick++ 29 30 Magick++ is included as part of ImageMagick source releases and may be 31 retrieved via ftp or Subversion. 32 33 Installation 34 35 Once you have the sources available, follow these detailed installation 36 instructions for UNIX and Windows. 37 38 Usage 39 40 A helper script named Magick++-config is installed under Unix which assists 41 with recalling compilation options required to compile and link programs which 42 use Magick++. For example, the following command will compile and link the 43 source file example.cpp to produce the executable example (notice that quotes 44 are backward quotes): 45 46 c++ `Magick++-config --cxxflags --cppflags --ldflags --libs` \ 47 -o example example.cpp 48 49 Windows users may get started by manually editing a project file for one of the 50 Magick++ demo programs. 51 52 Reporting Bugs 53 54 Please report any bugs via the Magick++ Bug Tracking System at 55 https://imagemagick.org/discourse-server/. 56
