# RMagick gets face-lift, book and movie deal

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gets-face-lift-book-and-movie-deal/96625>\
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**Created:** [January 24, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gets-face-lift-book-and-movie-deal/96625 "2006-01-24T16:48:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim-hunter)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gets-face-lift-book-and-movie-deal/96625/1 "2006-01-24T16:48:34Z")

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I’ve just uploaded RMagick 1.10.0 to RubyForge. This is the first major  
release of RMagick since last October. This release includes the  
following changes:

o New methods in the Image class  
add\_noise\_channel: Add noise to specified image channels  
vignette: An RMagick example makes its way into the ImageMagick  
API!  
Soften the edges of an image to produce an oval vignette.  
crop\_resized: Create a thumbnail with an exact size (thanks Jerret  
Taylor!)  
export\_pixels\_to\_str  
Super-fast export pixel data to a string buffer

o New Colorspace enumeration values for the Cineon and DPX image formats

o All known bugs fixed

o Removed the feature tests for unsupported releases of ImageMagick,  
producing a faster configuration step. The configure script ensures  
that the installed version of ImageMagick is one that RMagick  
supports.

o RMagick checks at execution time to ensure that the version of  
ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick in use is the same as the version for  
which it was configured.

# RMagick News

Apress’s new book, _The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick_, by Michael  
Still, devotes a chapter to using ImageMagick from Ruby programs via  
RMagick.

The GraphicsMagick project is auditioning for the motion-picture  
post-production business by adding support for industry-standard image  
formats to the upcoming 1.2 release. The scripting interface of choice  
is Ruby (of course!) via RMagick.

# What is RMagick?

RMagick is an interface to the ImageMagick ([www.imagemagick.org](http://www.imagemagick.org)) and  
GraphicsMagick ([www.graphicsmagick.org](http://www.graphicsmagick.org)) image processing libraries.  
These libraries support more than 90 image formats, including GIF, JPEG,  
PNG. RMagick includes RVG, a 2D drawing API and has comprehensive HTML  
documentation.

RMagick 1.10.0 is available as always from RubyForge:  
[http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick](http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick)

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**Author:** ![tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim-hunter)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gets-face-lift-book-and-movie-deal/96625/2 "2006-01-24T17:03:54Z")

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I have installed Rmagick on my tiger with  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoInstallRMagickOnOSXTiger/versions/new](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoInstallRMagickOnOSXTiger/versions/new)  
I read that some folks have had difficulty, but it seems to work fine  
for me. I was able to run a ruby example which uses it.

It is good to knwo there is a book on it, I will try to get it to see  
what Rmagick does!

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**Author:** ![tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim-hunter)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gets-face-lift-book-and-movie-deal/96625/3 "2006-01-24T17:06:57Z")

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Cool! Win-32 version (binary gem) planned anytime soon?

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**Author:** ![tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim-hunter)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gets-face-lift-book-and-movie-deal/96625/4 "2006-01-24T17:06:57Z")

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Micha Magen wrote:

> Cool! Win-32 version (binary gem) planned anytime soon?

For that we are in Kaspar S.'s Win32-black-belt hands…