VIPS will be supporting GraphicsMagick

I am very pleased that the next VIPS 
(http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS) release will 
support using GraphicsMagick rather than ImageMagick.  For those of 
you not familiar with VIPS, VIPS is an image processing package which 
uses a "pull through" model with incremental pipelined processing in 
order to use much less memory (if possible). VIPS is fast and 
efficient with large images.  It could be seen that GraphicsMagick and 
VIPS are competitors, but really they are complementary due to their 
substantially different usage and capabilities.

Interestingly, it was observed that when using the TIFF format, some 
capabilities of VIPS were extended by using GraphicsMagick 1.2 rather 
than ImageMagick.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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