Is it possible to run an im4java application without installing ImageMagick-6.7.6-1-Q16-windows-dll.exe?
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Duncan Jones
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The home page explains it reasonably clearly:
im4java is a pure-java interface to the ImageMagick commandline
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im4java [...] just generates the commandline for the ImageMagick commands and passes the generated line to the selected IM-command (using the java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start()-method).
How would you expect that to work without having the command line?
So to answer the question in the body of your post: no. As im4java is just a wrapper, you've got to have installed ImageMagick, as otherwise there's nothing for it to wrap!
Jon Skeet
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@DuncanJones: I was answering the question in the title more than the question in the body. Will make it clearer. – Jon Skeet Nov 17 '12 at 15:18
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It wasn't a complaint about your answer (I gave you a +1). I was being mildly flippant to the original poster... – Duncan Jones Nov 17 '12 at 15:19
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@DuncanJones: I suspected that might be the case - but the clarification certainly won't hurt :) – Jon Skeet Nov 17 '12 at 15:20