Hi,
This is a silly question, but I haven't found the answer yet. I have ImageMagick installed on my server and I would like to use it in one of my perl scripts.

The craziest thing is that I can't find any documentation on how to use it in a perl script. In fact, I don't even know how to 'invoke' Imagemagick from the command line. All the help pages that I'm finding explain how to use the 'convert' took, etc., but none of them address the issue of invoking or including Imagemagick.

We have an expensive server and Imagmagick is/was already installed on it, so it's not like the installation process was giving us problems. I tried to invoke imagemagick by tying 'ImageMagick' on the command line, but that didn't work.

Can anyone give me some tips on how to invoke ImageMagick and also how to use it in a Perl script?

Thank you!

20040816 Edit by ysth: change title from: How do I invoke InageMagick

In reply to How do I invoke ImageMagick by Anonymous Monk

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