From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA28980; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:29:57 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA28828; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:29:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6EMTsSH025875; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:29:54 +0200 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA28556; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:29:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Pierre Weis Message-Id: <200407142229.AAA28556@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Magick wrap In-Reply-To: <200407150002.57725.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org> from Florent Monnier at "Jul 15, 104 00:06:55 am" To: fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org (Florent Monnier) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:29:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, pierre.weis@inria.fr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40F5B3E2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; pierre:01 weis:01 pierre:01 weis:01 caml-list:01 camlimages:01 camlimages:01 gimp:01 gui:01 gimp:01 photoshop:99 montage:99 cristal:01 she:98 caml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > You should consider trying camlimages, and perhaps contribute to its > > development, if you need something that is not already available ... > > > > http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlimages/ > > > With ImageMagick we can nearly go as far than with Gimp > (except the fact that IM have no GUI). > Check this to see all the image manipulations IM provides : > http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html OK, OK! In your original message you said: > I would like to write a simple image manipulation program, that's why I supposed Camlimages could be useful. If you had written ``I would like to write an image manipulation program that can nearly go as far than with Gimp'', I would had said nothing (except good luck to you). > Perhaps I am wrong, but > Camlimages does not seem to provide so much possibilities, > it seems to be closer to GD than to ImageMagick. > And ImageMagick is closer to Gimp, than to GD :) I don't know GD. Camlimages is a simple image manipulation library that is powerful enough to help Active-DVI to work (Active-DVI is a graphic presenter for talks written in LaTeX) and has proved useful to create artistic things. > As I am graphist and not informatician, i will perhaps not have the skills to > make the implementation of the image manipulation program of my dreams > but I will try though ;-) > > So that's why I prefer to get the more powerful library I can ... Funny, funny indeed. You know what ? Camlimages was born just because we could not do the ``simple image manipulations'' you mentioned using any tool we could find on any platform (including ImageMagick, The Gimp, Photoshop and other artist specific tools). All those tools just core dump on our example: a friend of ours gave us 32 images that she wanted to make into a single image that could be used as a big frame (hey dude, just use montage and that's it!). Unfortunately, each image was as large as 64 MB. Only a Caml program was able to handle that one :) In this occasion, all those ``more powerful library we can get'' were not powerful enough. Hence the Camlimages library... Best regards, Pierre Weis INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners