Bug#644726: ITP: kpdftool -- GUI interface for managing PDFs with GhostView and ImageMagick

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Simone Rossetto <simros85@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bastien
>
> Il 08/10/2011 20:33, Bastien ROUCARIES ha scritto:
>
> Does it build with graphickmagick instead of imagemagick?
> If so could you switch to graphickmagick
>
> Actually I've never used graphickmagick but I can try to patch the sources.
>
> Why should I switch to graphickmagick? Is imagemagick about to get out of
> debian repositories?
> I'm asking this just to understand the request.

I am the imagemagick maintener, and it is a pain to maintain.
ABI/API is not really stable so it is not used for instance by kde

I prepare a so dump with binnmu each six months.

graphickmagick is ABI compatible with imagemagick5 and API/ABI stable.

better to use for simple task graphickmagick lib.

Bastien



>
> thanks
> Simone
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