ImageMagick versus GraphicsMagick

[John Culleton]

The consensus seems to be that GraphicsMagick is faster. Any other
advantages/disadvantages anyone cares to cite that would influence
my choice of one or the other?

[Fred Weinhaus]

I believe most people would agree that ImageMagick is much more
feature rich and flexible. My understanding is that GraphicsMagick
was a spin-off of Imagemagick from many years ago and has not changed
much since then. Take a look a Anthony's Example pages to see all the
new enhancement features such as various distort functions and
morphology. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

Fred

Post by John Culleton
The consensus seems to be that GraphicsMagick is faster. Any other
advantages/disadvantages anyone cares to cite that would influence
my choice of one or the other?
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John Culleton

[John Culleton]

Post by Fred Weinhaus
I believe most people would agree that ImageMagick is much

more

Post by Fred Weinhaus
feature rich and flexible. My understanding is that

GraphicsMagick

Post by Fred Weinhaus
was a spin-off of Imagemagick from many years ago and has not

changed

Post by Fred Weinhaus
much since then. Take a look a Anthony's Example pages to see

all the

Post by Fred Weinhaus
new enhancement features such as various distort functions and
morphology. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
Fred
http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users

Interesting. The bleeding edge development version of Scribus,
1.5.0, can be compiled with GraphicsMagick in order to handle
some newer versions of vector graphics (exactly what versions I
am still asking about.)

Per the GraphicsMagick web page the fork occurred in 2002 and the
last stable branch was released in March 8, 2010, indicating that
there is not much active work going on.

[Anthony Thyssen]

IT is faster but more likely because it is not doing thing right!
It forked from ImageMagick long before a LOT (and I mean a LOT) of bug
fixes were made, to core operations.

IM v7 will be forked internally soon, and I am certain the speed
issues, mostly caused by the use of multi-threading capabilities will
be one of the main issues addressed.


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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:32:22 -0400
magick-users-***@imagemagick.org wrote:

The consensus seems to be that GraphicsMagick is faster. Any other
advantages/disadvantages anyone cares to cite that would influence
my choice of one or the other?