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Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program

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On Friday 27 May 2016 04:06 CEST, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 5/26/2016 6:42 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> I have a Bash script that is more as a decade old which I use Image
>> Magick to convert Photos to various other formats. For a long time
>> I wanted to change this. I am thinking about porting to a Java
>> application. Java has two libraries for Image Magick: Jmagick and
>> im4java. But Java has also its own functions to process graphics.
>> Would it be better to use the Java functions (no dependencies) or
>> Image Magick. If the latter: which is the better library?
>
> If your conversion is so simple that it is easily done with standard
> Java library, then I suggest you go for it.
>
> But I suspect that it may not be sufficient. These wrappers do not
> exist because it is easy to do the same in Java without them.
>
> :-)

I evaluate things. Maybe I start with the standard library and as my
program evolves I switch. At the moment I know nothing about graphical
functionality in Java.


> Regarding Jmagick vs im4java, then they do different things. Jmagick
> is a JNI wrapper to ImageMagick C API. im4java is a programmer
> friendly interface to run the ImageMagick program with certain
> arguments.
>
> You know that functionality exposed via ImageMagick program is
> sufficient because that is what you do today, so im4java must be
> the obvious choice for you.

But then people that are going to use my program need to install Image
Magick. Or is this also the case when I am using Jmagick?

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 00:42 +0200
  Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-05-26 20:45 -0400
    Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 11:01 +0200
  Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-05-26 22:06 -0400
    Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 11:06 +0200
      Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-05-27 10:00 +0000
        Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 13:31 +0200
          Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-27 05:15 -0700
            Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 15:18 +0200
          Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-27 18:51 +0100
            Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-05-27 18:02 +0000
              Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 23:23 +0200
            Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 23:18 +0200
              Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-28 08:03 +0100
      Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-05-27 17:59 -0400
  Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-29 17:28 +0200
  Re: Bash script with Image Magick to a Java program Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 10:25 -0700

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