…typically do an even better job than most plugins. Also note that WordPress 3.5 now supports ImageMagick. If your host has it installed, that means that the thumbnail images that your theme may generate will look better and have smaller file sizes. Talk to your host about how to get the most of this new functionality.
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…RMagick is coming out of hibernation, with a new release that supports the latest Ruby and ImageMagick releases.
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…Postgres, Ack, Exuberant Ctags, Tmux, ImageMagick, Redis, and more with Homebrew.
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Thank you Nicholas Marriott for making it easier to manage various terminals with Tmux.
Thank you to Dennis Ritchie for software.
Thank you to Alan Kay for object-oriented programming.
Thank you to Martin Fowler for refactoring.
Thank you …
…Compilation might fail when one of the dependencies is using Quartz (i.e. ImageMagick) and the X11 directory isn't in the library load path. The easiest way to fix this is with a symlink: ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11
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…pixels trimmed from both sides to arrive at the final dimensions. This is not a native capability of ImageMagick, but rather the result of some decently complex code in Paperclip.
Our goal is to allow a user to select a portion of an image and then create a thumbnail of just that selected portion , ideally taking advantage of Paperclip's existing cropping/scaling logic.
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…—one way to find out is to use identify -verbose filename.jpg | grep "Quality" if you have ImageMagick installed).
Plus, have good toolchain to minimize your images without quality loss, I can't recommend the ImageOptim tool highly enough for that. I was able to shave off a cool 6% of the file size of the image used on Zappos. Your users will love you for the faster loading images!
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…Marc Schwieterman ( marcisme ) discovered that a fully passing test suite depends on ImageMagick, and documented as much in the contributions guide ( df39268 ).
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I found that big progressive JPEG images can cause performance problems when used with hardware accelerated CSS transforms, so here's what I do to makes things work better (with ImageMagick): convert somefile -interlace none somefile_for_ipad.jpg The -interlace none option saves the image as a non-progressive JPEG, and Safari doesn't attempt to render progressive intermediate steps [...]
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