Subject: ANNOUNCE: WebMagick Image Web Generator
From: [email-masked] (Bob Friesenhahn)
Date: 2 Apr 1997 20:40:32 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

WebMagick Image Web Generator

WebMagick is a package which supports making image collections available
on the Web. It recurses through directory trees, building HTML pages,
imagemap files, and client-side/server-side maps to allow the user to
navigate through collections of thumbnail images (somewhat similar to
xv's Visual Schnauzer) and select the image to view with a mouse click.

WebMagick is based on the "PerlMagick" ImageMagick PERL extension rather
than external ImageMagick utilities (as its predecessor "Gifmap" is). This
alone is good for at least a 40% performance increase on small images.
WebMagick supports smart caching of thumbnails to speed montage generation
on average size images. After a first pass at "normal" speed, successive
passes (upon adding or deleting images) are 5X to 10X faster due to the
caching.
 
WebMagick supports a very important new feature in its caching subsystem:
it can create and share a thumbnail cache with John Bradley's 'xv' program.
This means that if you tell 'xv' to do an update, WebMagick montages will
benefit and you can run WebMagick as a batch job to update xv's thumbnails
without having to wait for 'xv' to do its thumbnail reduction (and get a
browsable web besides!).

WebMagick requires the ImageMagick (3.8.4 or later) and PerlMagick (1.0 or
later) packages as well as a recent version of PERL 5.

Obtain PERL version 5 from the Perl Language Home Page at
"http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html". Install PERL according to its
installation instructions.

Obtain ImageMagick from "ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick" (you
may want the LZW version in the 'lzw' subdirectory) or visit the
ImageMagick web page at
"http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html".

Obtain PerlMagick from "ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl"
or visit the PerlMagick web page at
"http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/www/perl.html".

The WebMagick LSM is attached.

Begin3
Title:          WebMagick Image Web Generator
Version:        1.17
Entered-date:   31MAR97
Description:    WebMagick is a package which supports making image
                collections available on the Web. It recurses through
                directory trees, building HTML pages, imagemap files,
                and client-side/server-side maps to allow the user to
                navigate through collections of thumbnail images
                (somewhat similar to xv's Visual Schnauzer) and select
                the image to view with a mouse click. WebMagick is
                written in PERL and is compatable with PERL version
                5.002 and later. WebMagick uses the ImageMagick package
                and the PERL extension to ImageMagick (PerlMagick) and
                therefore requires that these packages be installed.

Keywords:       Web, ImageMagick, PERL, PerlMagick, graphics, GIF, JPEG
Author:         [email-masked] (Bob Friesenhahn)
Maintained-by:  [email-masked] (Bob Friesenhahn)
Primary-site:   http://www.cyberramp.net/~bfriesen/webmagick/dist/
			 97 kb webmagick-1.17.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.wizards.dupont.com /pub/ImageMagick/perl
                         97 kb webmagick-1.17.tar.gz

Platforms:       Reqires UNIX, PERL, ImageMagick, and PerlMagick
Copying-policy: Freeware
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