[SIP-devel] new development version (mogrify parameters)

[Ricardo F. <rf...@if...>]

Greetings,

another new SIP development version is released!

The mogrify routine is now robust and full-working. You can now easily
DRAW objects in your image using the '-draw' argument and many more
Image Processing operations which previously didn't work are now available.

ChangeLog:

20040201
   + INCOMPATIBLE IMPROVEMENT: all arguments to mogrify are now
   working!
   But now mogrify's "argv" argument now a string vector for options
   with parameters. For example, suppose "image" is a scilab array:
   BEFORE: mogrify(image, '-rotate 60');      // WRONG
   NOW   : mogrify(image, ['-rotate', '60']); // CORRECT

   This way, options like "draw" and many others are now working!!
   An example:

   mogrify(image, ['+antialias'; '-draw'; 'ellipse 50,50 30,30 0,360']);

   this, of course, equalizes the image and draws an ellipse, all in
   one command and all done in memory. If only one string is present you
   may type as before:

   mogrify(image, '-equalize');  // histogram equalization

   + Error treatment in mogrify is now robust and descriptive. In
   previous versions, mogrify didn't report errors if the parameters were
   wrong.
   + Error messages are now more descriptive in imread, imwrite, imfinfo
   and mogrify.
   + This release was tested with ImageMagick 5.5.7 and Animal 0.10.1

Download the new version at:
http://siptoolbox.sf.net/devel

Compilation and installation is suited for Linux, but should work
correctly in other unix systems. I myself use Slackware Linux 9.1
Please report to the list any problems that you see with SIP in other distros.

First please install the new AnImaL 0.10.1:
http://animal.sourceforge.net

You shall install the new SIP and Animal version over the older ones
without problems, but if you want, you can remove the old version like
this: in the unix shell, change dir to the old SIP-dev or Animal then type the
following:

prompt# make uninstall

You may now install the new versions as usual.

best regards,
Ricardo.

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