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Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
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The default ImageMagick version is Q16, 16 bits-per-pixel. You can build/install the Q8 version (8 bits-per-pixel) to reduce resource requirements. Otherwise you can either point ImageMagick to a disk area with plenty of temporary disk space (e.g. setenv MAGICK_TMPDIR /data) or set the disk limit to a low limit (e.g. -limit disk 1 causes the script to fail if the image pixel cache exceeds 1GB).
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The fastest version with the least resource consumption is Q8. Add --with-quantum-depth=8 to the configure script command line to generate the Q8 version.
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