Re: Re: Image::Magick

The ImageMagick documentation is quite... unimpressive.

Having said that, I stared at http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/www/combine.html for a few minutes and decided that I would suggest using "atop" rather than "over", for no apparent reason other than that's the way I always am forced to work with ImageMagick... trial and error. {grin}

It's so sad that such a great tool has such lousy documentation. I've used it for only a half dozen tasks or so, and three times have had to go to the source code to get my answer for simple things.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re^3: Image::Magick by Br'er Rabbit (Novice) on Sep 21, 2019 at 19:53 UTC
I cannot believe that--after weeks of sweat--I came to nearly the same conclusion as a Perl icon. ("Nearly", because without Mr. Schwartz's deep-and-wide experience, I could not recognize that the documentation was "unimpressive." I thought it "sucked.") I had come to the same conclusion that the PerlMagick module (a depressingly confusing synonym for Image::Magick) is best designed for "trial and error." Here's the thing: what I have always loved-loved-loved about Perl is that when I know what I want to do, there's Perl, right there with more than one way to do it. I know what I want to do with Image::Magick--and that isn't helping much at all. I'll ask it in a new ticket, but what I'd like to do is interrogate the Image::Magick module, and whatever is associated with it (however that's done) and ask it to spit out Just What Methods I can use, and Just What Parameters they take. Thank you Mr. Schwartz. Your comment here gives me new hope that I maybe ain't crazy. (And thanks for the PP book--which I paid retail for, probably back when it cost about-seven-fifty. Sorry I'm late with the thanks, but I had no idea how to get ahold of you.)	[reply]

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Re^3: Image::Magick
by Br'er Rabbit (Novice) on Sep 21, 2019 at 19:53 UTC

I cannot believe that--after weeks of sweat--I came to nearly the same conclusion as a Perl icon.

("Nearly", because without Mr. Schwartz's deep-and-wide experience, I could not recognize that the documentation was "unimpressive." I thought it "sucked.")

I had come to the same conclusion that the PerlMagick module (a depressingly confusing synonym for Image::Magick) is best designed for "trial and error."

Here's the thing: what I have always loved-loved-loved about Perl is that when I know what I want to do, there's Perl, right there with more than one way to do it. I know what I want to do with Image::Magick--and that isn't helping much at all.

I'll ask it in a new ticket, but what I'd like to do is interrogate the Image::Magick module, and whatever is associated with it (however that's done) and ask it to spit out Just What Methods I can use, and Just What Parameters they take.

Thank you Mr. Schwartz. Your comment here gives me new hope that I maybe ain't crazy. (And thanks for the PP book--which I paid retail for, probably back when it cost about-seven-fifty. Sorry I'm late with the thanks, but I had no idea how to get ahold of you.)

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