cilohaidem wrote:ok tnx dude's that helped a lot,
but is there anywere a specification what exatly Imagemagick can do more then gd2, i installed it with gd2-suport only and,at least by now im happy with it, but it would be intressting to know.
and question on DeXXus
i have a typical shared-hosting with php,mysql,.htaccess suport, and my hoster dont provide per default the Imagemagick support.
How do i install it, i have 100MB space , that must be enough.
How to proceede?
Unfortunately, you likely would need EVEN MORE than that! The space to install including temp files and the process, consumes much more than you think it would (afterwards the binaries can be stripped and temp files removed to take up less space). Also, you need shell access. You might be "well-served" to inquire of your hoster, if they can do this FOR you
I will outline what I was able to do, but provide no guarantee of your succcess. My host uses Linux and provides shell access:
1. I used "Putty", a Windows client software to connect to my webspace via SSH. This puts me into my root directory.
2. Then, to transfer Imagemagick distribution to my account, I typed:
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wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7-16.tar.gz
3. Followed by:
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tar zxvf ImageMagick-5.5.7-16.tar.gz
4. Then changed to the directory where Imagemagick was extracted:
5. Issued configure command for Imagemagick to be built by Linux:
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./configure --prefix=/full/path/to/my/root/directory --without-perl --without-magick-plus-plus
6. Told Linux to build Imagemagick support into my server support:
7. Checked for basic functionality:
8. Strip binaries to recover about 100MB from used space:
9. Reclaiming space...
a. Delete the .tar.gz file for ImageMagick that you downloaded.
b. Delete the ImageMagick directory that you created. The ImageMagick files that you need to keep will be safely stored in another location. The command to delete the directory is "rm -rf ImageMagick-5.5.7*".
c. Strip the files. From your home directory, run "find . -type f | xargs strip 2>&-".
d. That put me at about 20mb total for ImageMagick, most in the bin directory. You could save maybe about 10mb more by building this with shared libraries.
By the way, be careful with that rm command. If you place a space in front of the splat (*), you will wipe out your entire directory. Not a good thing, and not my fault.
10. Path to Imagemagick"s "convert" becomes:
/full/path/to/my/root/directory/bin/convert