[OSM-talk] OSM map renderer - update

[Ben Gimpert]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:57:43PM +0000, SteveC wrote:
> * @ 20/04/06 02:38:19 PM sxpert at esitcom.org wrote:
> > nick at hogweed.org wrote:
> > 
> > >-As I indicated yesterday ImageMagick seems to be the way to go for 
> > >antialiasing etc. The most regularly maintained ImageMagick API appears to 
> > >be the newer "MagickWand" API, however the installation instructions imply 
> > >recompiling the whole of PHP. I've emailed the author of the "MagickWand" 
> > >PHP bindings to see if this is strictly necessary.
> > 
> > I keep reading about imagemagick this, imagemagick that...
> > personally, I'm using Cairo, and find it much easier to use (ymmv)
> > 
> > if you have any remarks about it, please do, I'll forward them to carl 
> > worth ;D
> 
> cairos ruby bindings are terrible and old. You can't blit a file from
> memory to stdout you have to save it to disk and open it.

No, you can use named pipes:

http://www.eits.uga.edu/tti/Computer_Review/Winter95/UNIX.html