What are the advantages of ImageMagick?

[MPerio]

Hello,

I use phpwcms and I'm happy.

My webhoster doesn't support ImageMagick. What are the dvantages of ImageMagick, because I consider to change my webhoster.

Thanks

Thomas

[DeXXus]

Here's a little bit:
Not all of these are taken advantage of in phpWCMS:

-capable of higher quality thumbnails
-higher amount of different image formats that it can support
-many more configurable parameters (for transparency, etc.)
-batch processing capabilities
-you can call scripts (external to phpWCMS) that can take advantage of these features and enhance web page rendering.

[Kosse]

Here's a little bit:
Not all of these are taken advantage of in phpWCMS:

-capable of higher quality thumbnails
-higher amount of different image formats that it can support
-many more configurable parameters (for transparency, etc.)
-batch processing capabilities
-you can call scripts (external to phpWCMS) that can take advantage of these features and enhance web page rendering.

I do agree with DeXXus (he's a crack , in my own experience, Imagemagick handles thumbnails and image resizing better (cleaner and smoother)
but... (there's always a but ... most providers won't allow you to install Imagemagick because it requires special configs (on root) they don't like to make (dunno why, guess it has to do with stronger security issues, but I don't know) anyway, I use GD2 and all is well, you hardly notice the difference.

Cheers

[DeXXus]

I use GD2 and all is well, you hardly notice the difference.

This is ~absolutely~ right
Mine was installed (by me) using shell access.