Despite my lack of posting here in the last couple of weeks, and the death of my laptop (which I believe is traditional when you write a book), the book process continues. This is the first time I’ve written a book, and the process itself is pretty interesting. At the moment I’m looking through edits…
Category: Imagemagick
ImageMagick bug?
Subject: imagemagick: If the trailing character of a montage label option is a percent sign, the output image is erroneous Package: imagemagick Version: 6:6.2.3.6-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Executing this command line: montage -geometry +10+10 -tile 2 -label “-sepia-tone 15%%” \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20a.jpg -label “-sepia-tone 35%%” \ ImageMagick_Chapter5_Insert20b.jpg -label…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 4: Other ImageMagick Tools
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these chapter summaries here, and the reason for that is that I’ve been busy writing chapters, attending conferences, caring for a sick wife, and stuff like that. The book is still pretty much on track (I’m currently running about a week behind on the chapter deadlines,…
Random segue: how I came up with the original table of contents
One of the problems I grappled with early on with was how do you come up with a table of contents for a book? It’s a complicated process, and it’s really important. If the book doesn’t flow, then people are left confused about what goes where, and the book is a lot less useful. Additionally,…
The Apress page for the book
I just noticed that Apress has a page up for the book as well. Perhaps I should stop pointing these things out, but I find it exciting. There’s something deeply weird about reading about yourself though.
Working on review comments for Chapters 2, 3 and 4 tonight
Michael Carden asks in a comment to my previous post to the book if I had considered making draft chapters available for public comment before printing. To be completely honest it hadn’t occurred to me until Michael suggested it, and it does fit well with all the open source stuff I have done over the…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 3: Compression and Other Metadata
Writing the summary of Chapter 2 seemed to work as a warmup for me the other day, so I thought I would write about Chapter 3 as a warm up for working some more on Chapter 7. I also need to look at reviewer comments for Chapters 2, 3, and 4 sometime today, so it…
Why Debian?
Why do I use Debian? Well, one of the reasons is the bug reporting. I think I just found two bugs in ImageMagick, one a simple documentation bug, and the other a functionality bug. With Debian, I can just run the reportbug command from the command line with the name of the package, and walk…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 2: Basic Image Manipulation
I’m meant to be writing the rest of chapter seven tonight, but I thought I would warm up by continuing with my promised series of posts about the content of the book. The next chapter in the list is chapter two, which covers simple image manipulations. The idea was to get the stuff which everyone…
Some details about the publication process
Pascal asked in the comments to a previous post about the book about how I was going about writing the book and how the publication process works. It’s a good question, and something I meant to cover here anyway, so now seems like a good time. I’ll start from the beginning with a brief summary…