This has got to be one of the most frustrating experiences of my life. I am working on a project that requires the use of ImageMagick and I am implementing the business layer of the application in Java. JMagick is a thin JNI wrapper for ImageMagick that whilst a little limited, will perform a good bulk of what can be achieved by using system calls to the ImageMagick commands. I had been using system calls with Runtime.getRuntime().exec() which isn’t ideal (but for some of the more complex ImageMagick work like fine tuning compositions is still required). I first of all decided to go down the easy road (or what I thought was easy) and install all the pre-built libraries and binaries and hopefully it would all just work. I was wrong.
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