pythonMagick question

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM,  <jyoung79 at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wanting to try out pythonMagick, but am pretty lost with this whole thing.
> What I'm wanting to do is view EPS and PDF files with Python and be able to
> zoom into the images to see smaller detail.
>
> I downloaded PythonMagick-0.9.1.tar and have been looking through that
> folder.  The README file says:
>
> -------------
> Requists for installation is:
> boost
> boost-python
> python 2.5
> Magick++ (>= 6.2)
>
> and for building:
> pkg-config
> libtool
> make
>
> and for generation build scripts is defined in autogen.pl
>
> Building:
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> -------------
>
> What's this 'boost' stuff and Magick++?  Do I need to install
> more things to make this work?

Yes:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/
http://www.boost.org/

For what `make` et. al do:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

Cheers,
Chris
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