# RMagick 2.7.1 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-2-7-1-released/152348>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 3, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-2-7-1-released/152348 "2008-11-03T00:40:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-2-7-1-released/152348/1 "2008-11-03T00:40:36Z")

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RMagick 2.7.1 adds a new exception class called  
Magick::FatalImageMagickException. RMagick raises this exception when  
ImageMagick reports a fatal (unrecoverable) error.

I added support for a special “user” option that adds a user-specified  
string to the image description returned by Image#inspect. This string  
helps differentiate between images and is useful when debugging with  
Magick.trace\_proc. See the documentation for Magick::Image::Info#[] for  
an example.

This release also fixes a bug in Magick.fonts that occurs only on 64-bit  
systems (patch by James Le Cuirot), and adds the Image#total\_ink\_density  
attribute reader (feature request by F. Behrens).

RMagick 2.7.1 is available as always at RubyForge:  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/). This release is also available  
as a pre-compiled binary for MS Windows systems. Please wait a few hours  
for the mirrors to be updated.

RMagick 2.7.1 is an interface to the ImageMagick ([www.imagemagick.org](http://www.imagemagick.org))  
and image processing library. RMagick supports more than 100 image  
formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG. RMagick comes with comprehensive HTML  
documentation, including 185 complete examples.