[OSM-dev] convert tool

[Alexander Wright]

You could try building the imagemagick from source.

The X dependencies are not necessary for core functions.

Cheers,

Alex.

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:36:38 Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> Dominik Spies wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to set up a local slippy map to have instant access to my last
> > changes for me and some folks working on a specfifc county.
> >
> > After some stuggle with building osm2pgsql and mapnik, generate_tiles.py
> >   prints the error message: "/bin/sh: convert: not found". I figured out
> > that this tool is in the utils directory in svn, but "apt-get install
> > libmagick9-dev" will install about 100MB binaries, with x11 and so on..
> >
> > Ist that neccesary? Can I download an binary version of that tool with
> > smaller footprint?
> > What exactly does this tool do?
>
> Hi Dominik,
> on debian it's in the package 'imagemagick', don't know the footprint of
> that package though. But it has a lot of dependencies (with X11) etc etc.
>
> man convert:
> NAME
> convert  -  convert  between  image formats as well as resize an image,
> blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much
> more.
> SYNOPSIS
> convert input-file [options] output-file
> OVERVIEW
> The  convert  program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools.
>   Use it to convert between image formats as well  as  resize  an
> image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample,
> and much more.  For more information about the convert command, point
> your  browser  to
> file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.7/www/convert.html             or
> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php.
> ...
>
> Regards,
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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