image magick dependencies

image magick dependencies

installing ImageMagick, and it download mega bunch of things.

• it's cazy
• getttext, glib, freetype, ghostscript, harfbuzz, and entire faaking python as part of it
• lol. it's missing a bundled porn viewer
• it's got to install one universe of text rendering operating system too
• wtf
• and tiff. lol. nobody uses tiff
• it's one of the early open source, where the guy tries to amass to be everything for popularity
• lol. cairo.
• and lol sqlite

alternative to ImageMagick

• MacOS sips Image Processing Tutorial

• or, use python, install the “pillow” lib.