# RMagick OS X installation script beta release

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-os-x-installation-script-beta-release/105191>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 26, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-os-x-installation-script-beta-release/105191 "2007-05-26T23:59:53Z")\
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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:** [May 26, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-os-x-installation-script-beta-release/105191/1 "2007-05-26T23:59:53Z")

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I’ve kept the alpha releases of this script low-key but I’ve gotten good  
feedback from several people lately, so I guess it’s ready for beta.

This Ruby script installs the current release of RMagick on OS X 10.4.  
As part of the process it installs the current release  
of ImageMagick as well as the delegate libraries that support JPEG, PNG,  
PDF and WMF images, TrueType (TTF) fonts and  
Postscript (Type1) fonts, and optionally, TIFF images. Everything is  
built from source. This script does not rely on  
MacPorts, fink, or RubyGems.

Please read the README file in the zip file before trying to run the  
script.

You can download the script from this page:  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=12](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12)

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.  
RMagick supports more than 90 image formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG.  
RMagick has comprehensive HTML documentation here:  
[http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/](http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/)