GraphicsMagick is a

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ImageMagick ImageMagick, invoked from the command line as magick, is a free and open-source cross-platform software suite for displaying, creating, converting, modifying, and editing raster images. ImageMagick was created by John Cristy in 1987, and it ...

, emphasizing stability of both programming

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and command-line options. It was branched off ImageMagick's version 5.5.2 in 2002 after irreconcilable differences emerged in the developers' group. In addition to the

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APIs available with ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick also includes a

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API, called TclMagick. GraphicsMagick is used by several websites to process large numbers of uploaded photographs. As of 2023, GraphicsMagick had 4 active code contributors while ImageMagick had 24 active contributors. The most recent stable release of GraphicsMagick, version 1.3.45, was made available on August 27, 2024.

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Slides from Web2.0 Expo 2009. (and somethin else interestin’)Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images
{{DEFAULTSORT:Graphicsmagick Command-line software Free raster graphics editors Graphics libraries Software forks Free software programmed in C Software using the MIT license