imagemagick and typo3 on mac osx

February 24th, 2007

I will cut right to the chase on this. After researching and trying several different methods of enabling imagemagick in typo3 on my mac, there was only one package that worked completely. The package imagemagick-6.1.7.pkg.tar.gz provided by Marc Liyanage. Just download the pacakage, extract it, run it, and it will install everything in /usr/local/bin/ just like it should! At the time that I was hunting, the pages of his site were not responding, but I found the important page in a google cache.
Here are some other things that I tried. These did not work for me, in case you are considering some of these same methods.

  • Using DarwinPorts to install GraphicsMagick
  • Using DarwinPorts to install ImageMagick
  • Using the Image Magick downloadable binary from the ImageMagick web site
  • Compiling ImageMagick from source. (I was missing some of pretty important libraries, like JPG, TIFF, etc.)

So, don’t mess around. Just be smart and use the Mac installer from Marc Liyanage.

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One Response to “imagemagick and typo3 on mac osx”

  1. lmolmud Says:
    November 17th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    Thank you so much for this information. I was struggling with the same attempts you listed, and within 10 minutes of seeing this post, my troubles were gone (insofar as Imagemagick is concerned, anyway :-)

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