1 2 This is Magick++, the object-oriented C++ API to the ImageMagick 3 image-processing library, the most comprehensive open-source image 4 processing solution available. Read the release notes for Magick++. 5 6 Magick++ supports an object model which is inspired by PerlMagick. 7 Magick++ executes faster than PerlMagick since it is accessed from a 8 compiled language rather than from a scripting language. This makes it more 9 suitable for Web CGI programs which must start-up and execute quickly. 10 Images support implicit reference counting so that copy constructors and 11 assignment incur almost no cost. The cost of actually copying an image (if 12 necessary) is done just before modification and this copy is managed 13 automatically by Magick++. De-referenced copies are automatically deleted. 14 The image objects support value (rather than pointer) semantics so it is 15 trivial to support multiple generations of an image in memory at one time. 16 17 Magick++ provides integrated support for the Standard Template Library (STL) 18 so that the powerful containers available (e.g. deque, vector, list, and 19 map) can be used to write programs similar to those possible with PERL & 20 PerlMagick. STL-compatable template versions of ImageMagick's list-style 21 operations are provided so that operations may be performed on multiple 22 images stored in STL containers. 23 24 Documentation 25 26 Detailed documentation are provided for all Magick++ classes, class methods, 27 and template functions which comprise the API. 28 29 Obtaining Magick++ 30 31 Magick++ is included as part of ImageMagick source releases and may be 32 retrieved via ftp or Subversion. 33 34 Installation 35 36 Once you have the sources available, follow these detailed installation 37 instructions for UNIX and Windows. 38 39 Usage 40 41 A helper script named Magick++-config is installed under Unix which assists 42 with recalling compilation options required to compile and link programs 43 which use Magick++. For example, the following command will compile and 44 link the source file example.cpp to produce the executable example (notice 45 that quotes are backward quotes): 46 47 c++ `Magick++-config --cxxflags --cppflags --ldflags --libs` \ 48 -o example example.cpp 49 50 Windows users may get started by manually editing a project file for one of 51 the Magick++ demo programs. 52 53 Reporting Bugs 54 55 Please report any bugs via the Magick++ Bug Tracking System at 56 http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/. 57 58 Related Packages 59 60 Users who are interested in displaying their images at video game rates on a 61 wide number of platforms and graphic environments (e.g. Windows, X11, BeOS, 62 and Linux/CGI) may want to try PtcMagick, which provides a simple interface 63 between Magick++ and OpenPTC. 64