PerlMagick Windows 2000 HowTo

Dylan's Collection Of PerlMagick Stuff

http://www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/

Author: Dylan Beattie <imagemagick [at] dylanbeattie [dot] net>

This page is a collection of binaries, scripts, how-tos, documents and other assorted bits which I've made, found or written during my adventures with ImageMagick. All material found here is distributed under the same terms as the ImageMagick license agreement.

Downloads

NOTE: As of ImageMagick 5.4.8, the official ImageMagick windows installer includes PerlMagick for ActivePerl. Hence I will no longer be providing new binaries of PerlMagick from this site. The official distribution is available from http://www.imagemagick.org/www/windows.html

ImageMagick Windows 2000 binaries - including DLL packages and PPM packages for installing PerlMagick

Documentation and Tutorials

File paths under Windows / IIS - forward slashes or backslashes? Absolute or relative? The answers lie within
Debugging PerlMagick Scripts - how to find out what's causing those 'broken image' icons...
Windows 2000 PerlMagick How-To - covering downloading, building and installing PerlMagick on Windows 2000 and setting up the IIS web server to work with PerlMagick scripts.
ImageMagick Resize Filter Examples - comparison of the various resize filters available with ImageMagick. Warning: this page contains roughly 1.5Mb worth of images.
Compositing Images with Alpha Transparency - how to overlay transparent and semi-transparent logos onto background images

Contact Information

Feel free to email me if:

You've read all my instructions and still can't make PerlMagick work on your Windows 2000 box
You've successfully installed PerlMagick on Windows 95, 98, Me or XP
You have found a broken link, typo, error or other issue with a page on this website.
You have some information which you'd like me to host or link to from this website.

Everything else related to PerlMagick/ImageMagick should be directed to the ImageMagick Mailing Lists! If I can help, you're far more likely to get an answer if you post to the list (which I read several times a day) than if you email me off-list. I'm not an ImageMagick guru, I'm just a guy who uses PerlMagick on Windows 2000 servers and is happy to contribute my findings back to the community. Emailing me off-list with questions I can't answer wastes your time ('cos you won't get an answer), wastes my time ('cos I have to read it) and doesn't contribute anything to the ImageMagick community, which is the main reason I do any of this in the first place. I don't have the expertise, time or resource to help everyone with an ImageMagick problem and an email account, and I'd rather stick to what I know and leave the rest to the real experts.

Thanks

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