The topic of html templating seems to be trending. I'm always looking to increase what I can do with templates, and an important part of that for my needs is manipulating images. I want to be able to use perl for things that I might otherwise use a command line for, if nothing else than to spare the keystrokes as per the virtue of laziness. But it's essential for me not to have images that are 2 megs instead of 100 k, where most images do fine.

The first problem? I'm on a new machine, and every time I install ImageMagick, I feel like I'm getting hazed. What I think needs to happen is that perl has to be able to find the dev libraries, and somehow, what I have isn't doing that yet. According to my ubuntu 14.04 OS, I have this installed. Yet I can't get past the initial use. I took a couple screenshots and put them up on a page, which I created by commenting out the use statement: screenshots.

$ perl magick1.pl
Can't locate Image/Magick.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Imag
+e::Magick module) (@INC contains: template_stuff /etc/perl /usr/local
+/lib/perl/5.18.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/sha
+re/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.18 /usr/share/perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/site_
+perl .) at magick1.pl line 15.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at magick1.pl line 15.
$

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I don't want to get too ambitious for how much to get done on one thread, but after it's installed, I'd like to use perl to get all images in a directory shrunk to less than 100 k. Thanks for your comment.

In reply to Using ImageMagick effectively by Aldebaran

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