Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP and fax

[<temp301303 youngman org uk>]

On 29/08/2014 14:57, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 29. August 2014 um 08:19 Uhr
> > Von: "Neil Youngman" <temp301303 youngman org uk>
> > I'm looking for an efficient command line method to add header text into
> > fax documents.
> >
> > This can be done with ImageMagick, but it's painfully slow and uses far
> > too much memory if it's a large fax (tens or hundreds of pages).
> You're using the Q8 version of ImageMagick? "too much memory consume" was a frequent complaint of Q16 users.
>
> I've successfully deployed GraphicsMagick to fax servers for similar tasks for years, and have never seen 
> problems like this - only very few of them had to handle fax messages with more than 20 pages, though.
>
> Preferring GM over IM was due to my somewhat mixed experience with IM in the past, as the latter's random 
> features per release were starting to annoy me. I haven't kept up with its overall performance and 
> development in the past 8 years, however.

GraphicsMagick looks almost perfect. It's much more efficient than
ImageMagick and it does almost everything I need. One feature doesn't
seem to do what I expect, but if I can't get it to work, I can work
around it.

Thanks for that pointer. 

Neil Youngman