Re: [tlug] Irfanview Via Wine

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:37:07PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Lyle H Saxon writes:
> 
>  > What can be done with ImageMagick BTW?  Can you edit photos with
>  > that?
> program, but there are many operations you can do interactively using
> the WIMP interface.

Don't know WIMP and Google don't help much. Most of the hits (on the first
few pages) imply that it's roughly a synonym for "GUI".[1]

> One problem is that it is a major resource pig.  It only has one
> depth for in-memory images, which IIRC can be 16, 32, or 64 bpp (multiple
> of 4 because of the alpha channel).  Running out of memory on a 1GB
> system is not uncommon.

I have been using "display" for plain old image viewing, and other ImageMagick
utilities in scripts for cropping and resizing images for years with never a
memory problem. These were mostly 256Meg machines. Of course YMMV.

Ed

[1] Except for wimp.com where you don't (probably) want to go, and
"Short for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, the ghostly WIMPs are 
predicted by theory but have so far eluded detection...."