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New Post: Using ImageMagick.net

hri — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:24:01 GMT

I imagine the question is how to determine the coordinates needed to make an auto-crop function.

Did you find out how ??

New Post: Remove black border

hri — Wed, 29 May 2013 12:45:45 GMT

hello,

Is there a way to remove black borders using ImageMagick.NET ? I tried Trim() and FloodFill methods but none did the job.

Thanks in advanced

New Post: SVG Image loading trouble

ISens — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:21:29 GMT

Hi, I am trying to load some svg image and get SEHException exception with ErrorCode = -2147467259;
What can it be ?
Code:

 MagickNet.InitializeMagick();
 ImageMagickNET.Image Img = new ImageMagickNET.Image(@"picture.svg");

New Post: Convolve?

KFR1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:36:09 GMT

Has anyone used the Convolve method? I'm having trouble passing the array of doubles to the method.

New Post: Project still alive? If so I could use a nudge in the right direction!

kiquenet — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:04:43 GMT

Any solution about it?

New Post: Getting Started

cmsturg — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:25:50 GMT

I did a similar project (as a web service) where I take in an image and convert it to JPG. Only come across a few issues. I do recall getting an error similar to yours. Once I rebooted my pc after the install, everything was cleared up. http://imagemagick.codeplex.com/discussions/257915.

New Post: Getting Started

iDiner — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:02:16 GMT

Well, thanks. Unfortunately this does not help me much. I need ImageMagick for just one purpose: convert *.eps to *.jpg. And as far as I know ImageMagick is the only library able to do so. Ah, no, there is ImageGlue as well. Maybe I should checkout this one.

Thanks for all your help and support guys!

New Post: Getting Started

TheDeekman — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:20:15 GMT

I actually abandoned ImageMagickNET first for the COM implementation of ImageMagick then for the .NET image manipulation classes at System.Drawing.

Check out the following:

System.Drawing
System.Drawing.Imaging
System.Drawing.Drawing2D
System.Drawing.Text

-Deek

New Post: Getting Started

iDiner — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:50 GMT

Sorry, Deek, but Application.ExecutablePath in a web application? I believe this only works for WinForms or console apps...no?

I mean, I know the path where all the DLLs go when I run the application.
And the 21 DLLs I mentioned are all in there.
Additionally to the default Microsoft and MVC DLLs.

So, I believe it is not a question of the path, but rather ... something else. Maybe I am still missing a DLL? That's why I listed all the DLLs I imported to my project. If you have a running project with ImageMagick, and you could check which DLLs exactly it contains, that would be awesome.

Thx!

Ingmar

New Post: Getting Started

TheDeekman — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:26:36 GMT

Sorry, I missed the ASP MVC reference. Use the line below to get the executable path for your MVC app. If you drop the DLL's there, that might do it.

Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath)

-Deek

New Post: Getting Started

iDiner — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:50:43 GMT

Yes, I checked 'Add application directory to your system path' during ImageMagick's installation. But good to know that I don't have to copy the DLLs then. And yes, my target platform is x86. And I have been trying both Visual Studio Development Server and local IIS Web Server. I'm not using Cassini.

If I just knew which DLL is missing or can't be found. Stupid thing ;-)

New Post: Getting Started

dlemstra — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:27:26 GMT

When you check 'Add application directory to your system path' during the installation you don't have to copy the dll's.

- Is your 'target platform' x86?

- If you are using the cassini webserver to start your project? You could try switching to IIS7.

New Post: Getting Started

iDiner — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:27:16 GMT

Hi dlemstra,

thanks for your help as well.

Yes, I am using the Q8 version of ImageMagickNET. And I just re-installed everything one more time. This time I checked "Install ImageMagickObject OLE Control for VBScript, Visual Basic, and WSH" in ImageMagick's setup program. As result I got another DLL in the installation's root folder: "ImageMagickObject.dll". I copied this new DLL to the other 20 DLLs in my project.

But still: error message on Run.

So far I haven't even tried my web server. I'm still fiddling around on my local development machine.

New Post: Getting Started

dlemstra — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:11:12 GMT

Are you using the correct ImageMagickNET.dll? If you download 'ImageMagick-6.5.3-10-Q8-windows-dll.exe', you should use the ImageMagickNET.dll from the bin\ReleaseQ8 directory.

If it is possible you could also install the '.exe' on your webserver. Then you won't need to copy any of the dll's to the bin directory.

New Post: Getting Started

iDiner — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:32:42 GMT

Hey Deek,

thanks for your help. Well, afaik there is no *.exe for web applications ;-)

But I can confirm that all DLLs were copied to the /bin folder when I compiled the project. So, the DLLs are located both in the root folder of my project AND in the corresponding /bin folder.

In case I am missing a DLL...I have no idea how to figure out which one it might be.

Damn, I was really hoping to be able to integrate ImageMagickNet.

Cheers
Ingmar

New Post: Getting Started

TheDeekman — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:30:44 GMT

The key is that the .dll's publish to the same directory as the .exe.

When you "Build" check the directory that is generated. Ensure that all the dlls are in the same directory as your .exe

If that's the case, then I would say you have a missing dll.

Good luck!

-Deek

New Post: Getting Started

iDiner — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:07:17 GMT

Terrible installation ;-)

So I tried to follow fabior and TheDeekman (thanks for your effort guys), but I'm still getting the FileNotFoundException.

I'm building an ASP.MVC 4 application with Visual Studio 2012.

In short, this is what I did:

I downloaded and installed the binareies and libs for ImageMagickNet from here: http://imagemagick.codeplex.com/releases/view/30302
I downloaded and installed "ImageMagick-6.5.3-10-Q8-windows-dll.exe".
I added a reference to "ImageMagickNet.dll".
I copied all DLLs from C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.3-Q8 to my VS project's root folder. However, I just mention that I did not copy the DLLs from C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.3-Q8\modules\coders and other subfolders. I don't need those, right?
I made a right click on my project and then Add > Existing Item...
Here I picked all the DLLs which I had just copied to my project's root folder (in step 2).
After that, I had 20 new files visible in Visual Studio's Solution Explorer. It's 14 files starting with CORE_RL_..., also mfc90.dll, msvcp90.dll, msvcr90.dll, vcomp90.dll, X11.dll and Xext.dll.
I selected these 20 files, went to the Properties Pane and set "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy always".
I started my application by hitting F5.
My browser comes up and shows the "yellow screen" with the error message (Could not load file or assembly 'ImageMagickNET.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.)

Can any of you guys tell if I missed something?

New Post: Getting Started

TheDeekman — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:02:13 GMT

RE: the docs...

I have found that the COM library that installs by default when you install the binary for Windows uses the EXACT SAME syntax as the command line. This doesn't seem to be possible with ImageMagickNET. So while a .NET wrapper is nice, the lack of documentation (and apparent lack of features) prevented me from using this in my project.

So my recommendation for anyone wanting to implement ImageMagick in their project is to simply bundle the ImageMagick installer with your project and deploy it along with your app.

To use the COM components:

1) Install the newest version of ImageMagick on the computer you're developing with.
2) Add a reference to the COM component "ImageMagickObject" to your application.
3) Import ImageMagickObject in your class. (Imports ImageMagickObject)
4) In your code, declare a new MagickImage object. (Dim VarName As MagickImage)
5) Now use that MagickImage object as if it were a command line. So...
convert img1.gif img2.jpg -becomes- VarName.convert "img1.gif", "img2.jpg"
6) Use any of the thousands of very helpful and detailed tutorials, help documents and examples on the web!
7) When it comes time to publish, incorporate the ImageMagick installer in your install.

I don't intend to bash this project; it's a great idea and I would love to see some development and documentation but the COM implementation is just more well supported, in my opinion.

New Post: Getting Started

TheDeekman — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:32:19 GMT

^^^^^ SO MUCH THIS!!!

Fabiobr's instructions worked perfectly for me, with one little addon, so I'm going to sum up here: (I'm using the 8-bit version... just substitute "16" wherever the instructions refer to "8" below)

1) Download this project and unzip it anywhere.
2) In your project, make a reference to the ImageMagickNET.dll in the bin\Q8 folder.
3) Go to http://image_magick.veidrodis.com/image_magick/binaries/ and download 'ImageMagick-6.5.3-10-Q8-windows-dll.exe'
4) Run the install, accepting all the defaults.
5) Copy ALL the DLL's in C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.3-Q8 to the ROOT folder of your project. (not the bin folder)
6) Set "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy always"

If you copy the DLL's to the bin folder, they will not be in the same folder as the executable when you debug (or publish) and will get this error. By copying them to the root folder, they will be copied to the same directory as the executable.

Now if only the help docs were better...

New Post: Compile problems - no Magick++.h

jturner5 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:36:13 GMT

You need the core binaries to be installed to work with ImageMagick.NET. These will include the C++ header files.