VIPS 7.11 review

VIPS is a free image processing system.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 11462K Developer: Joseph Padfield Price: $0.00 Updated: 19 Jul 2005

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VIPS is a free image processing system. It aims to be about half-way between Photoshop and Excel: it is very bad at retouching photographs, but very handy for the many other imaging tasks that programs like Photoshop get used for. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with colour.

It comes in two main parts: libvips is the image-processing library and nip2 is the graphical user-interface. Both work on Unix (with convenient packages for Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD), Windows (NT, 2k and XP only) and Macintosh (OS 10.2 and later). The VIPS library is licensed under the LGPL and and the user-interfaces are licensed under the GPL. See http://www.gnu.org.

What's New:
added im_copy_morph()
im_region_region() allows Bands and BandFmt to differ, provided sizeof( pel ) is the same ... makes im_copy_morph() work
added im_meta*() functions (MW)
im_header_*() rewritten for meta
added im_header_exists(), im_header_map()
use pkg-config to find libpng and ImageMagick
added im_lineset()
added im_extract_areabands() (JF)
added im_copy_from() (JF).

Requirements:
X11 Installed.