[ANN] SmartImage 0.0.3 - simple yet powerful cross-platformthumbnail generation and image manipulation in Ruby
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From: Tony Arcieri on 1 Jul 2010 19:26 [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] "It's like a Swiss Army Knife for images, but one of those tiny ones you can keep on your keychain" SmartImage is an image processing/compositing/thumbnailing Ruby with the following design goals: - Completely seamless installation and usage across all Ruby implementations, with an emphasis on MRI and JRuby - Expose a small but powerful and easy-to-understand API - Easy to extend with support for multiple image compositing backends (presently RMagick and Java Graphics2D) That's cool, so what can it do? - Create thumbnails (even in your Ruby on Rails application!) - Scale images - Composite multiple images into a single image - Convert between various image formats (.png, .jpg, and .gif presently supported) - Apply alpha masks to an image Why should I use SmartImage instead of RMagick, ImageScience, etc? - You want a more powerful library than ImageScience - You want a library with a less mind-bogglingly bloated API than RMagick - You're considering a move to an alternative Ruby implementation like JRuby and want an image library that works seamlessly between MRI, JRuby, and other Ruby implementations -- v0.0.3 release notes: As part of keeping with its commitment to seamless support for multiple Ruby implementations, SmartImage 0.0.3 fixes some minor incompatibilities with JRuby 1.5. -- Tony Arcieri Medioh! A Kudelski Brand |