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Apache::ImageMagick - Convert and manipulate images on the fly
==============================================================

This module uses the Image::Magick library to process or create an image on 
the fly. It is able to convert the source image to any type you request that
is supported by Image::Magick (e.g. TIFF, PPM, PGM, PPB, GIF, JPEG and more). 
Additionaly you can specify (multiple) image manipulation filters in the 
additional path info and format options in the query string.
Apache::ImageMagick caches the result image so multiple requested with 
the same parameters only needs one computation. To do more sophisticated
manipulation, Apache::ImageMagick can run a script that does the image
manipulation/creation. Last but not least Apache::ImageMagick comes with
a proxy module, that can be linked into a non mod_perl frontend proxy server
and which will delivers cached images which highest possible speed.

For detailed information see 

  perldoc Apache::ImageMagick

 

Prerequisites
=============

 ImageMagick 
	Home 		http://www.imagemagick.org
        Installation    http://www.imagemagick.org/www/install.html
	Download	ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/ImageMagick


Installation
============

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install


Installation mod_aimproxy
=========================

mod_aimproxy is only necessary if you are running a non mod_perl frontend proxy server
which delivers static content. To compile mod_aimproxy staticly into the Apache binary
use the following options when you configure Apache. NOTE: mod_proxy must be also compiled
into Apache. Add other options as desired.

    ./configure --enable-module=proxy --add-module=/path/to/mod_aimproxy.c 


to create aim_proxy as DSO, do a

    apxs -c mod_aimproxy.c
    apxs -i -a -n aimproxy mod_aimproxy.so

and add a

    LoadModule aimproxy_module mod_aimproxy.so

to your httpd.conf




Author
======

G.Richter (richter@dev.ecos.de)

Based on work from Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern publish in 
"Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" see www.modperl.com