graphicsmagick

Graphicsmagick

A very light Ruby wrapper for the Graphicsmagick CLI that supports mogrify, composite, and convert, plus a few convenience methods.

Why?

Graphicsmagick was 10x faster for our image processing needs than ImageMagick. I wanted to use Graphicsmagick, but wanted a Ruby wrapper to help deal with exceptions and long running tasks. I needed to use multiple utilities within Graphicsmagick and the current crop of *_magick gems either did not support all of them, or had costly overhead (or both).

Installation

Install Graphicsmagick

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/README.html

On OS X, it's recommended to use brew

brew update
brew install graphicsmagick

Install gem

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'graphicsmagick'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install graphicsmagick

Usage

Mogrify commands and overwriting file

img = GraphicsMagick::Image.new('my_file.jpg')
img.crop('360x504+432+72').resize('125x177!')
img.write!

Equivalent to

gm mogrify -crop '360x504+432+72' -resize '125x177!' my_file.jpg

Mogrify commands and write to new file

img = GraphicsMagick::Image.new('my_file.jpg')
img.crop('360x504+432+72').resize('125x177!')
img.write('my_new_file.jpg')

Equivalent to

cp my_file.jpg my_new_file.jpg & gm mogrify -crop '360x504+432+72' -resize '125x177!' my_new_file.jpg

Convert a PDF file to a PNG while passing options at both steps

img = GraphicsMagick::Image.new("my_file.pdf")
img.strip.density(144).colorspace('RGB').auto-orient
img.convert.resize('50%')
img.write('my_new_file.png')

Equivalent to

gm convert -density 144 -strip -colorspace RGB -auto-orient "my_file.pdf" -resize '50%' my_new_file.png

Composite an image over another image

background = GraphicsMagick::Image.new("background.png")
img = GraphicsMagick::Image.new("overlay.png")
img.composite(background).geometry('+100+150')
img.write('composite.png')

Equivalent to

gm composite -geometry +100+150 background.png overlay.png composite.png

You can pass a file too

file = File.new('my_file.png')
img = GraphicsMagick::Image.new(file)

temp_img = GraphicsMagick::Image.new(Tempfile.new('foo'))
temp_img.path  #=> "path/to/temp/file"

Contributing

• Fork it
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create new Pull Request