ImageMagick

I am doing a fresh install of dolphin 7.2 b2 on a fresh centos 7 setup. Interesting that I did not see a section for imagemagick. Interested to see what differences there are without it.

I was under the impression that ImageMagick had to be installed that it was not part of the CentOS distro.  I usually compile my own ImageMagick because CentOS tends to stay way behind in their effort to make sure they are super stable.

on 7.1, YES. I had to setup ImageMagick. Thats why it surprised me that it did not show imagemagick in the install of 7.2b2.

This Centos 7 setup has nothing added to it. As I go, I add what is needed. So, I was expecting to have to do the ImageMagick but was surprised when it did not come up.

Images are processed on user side before uploading so no more imagemagick requirement for server. 

 How did you come to that conclusion?

 http://www.boonex.com/n/new-photo-uploader-in-dolphin-7-2  

 And where does that blog post talk about imagemagick?

All that blog post is about, is the new html uploader with client side image re-sizing that I've been bitching about for years.  The client side image resizing, as I tried to tell Boonex for years, reduces image upload times by up to 90%.

Server side image resizing can still use ImageMagick OR GD Library.

Actually ImageMagick binaries aren't required for Dolphin 7.2 anymore. 

In new Dolphin we used Intervention Image library which resizes images using GD or ImageMagick php extension.  

So if you want to use ImageMagick for resizing in 7.2, then you need ImageMagick extension compiled.

The library requires at least PHP version 5.4    Therefore, Dolphin 7.2 is going to require at least PHP version 5.4.  I don't know if the php version has been stated in any release notes of 7.2 but I have seen some having issues with the beta release and it may be due to trying it on php < 5.4.

Alex, is the algorithm used to determine how to crop and resize for thumbs changed in 7.2?  I noted in a forum post that the algorithm was flawed and resulted in the tops of people's heads being chopped off in the resulting thumb.  I edited the algorithm to fix the issue on my site.  Your comment just reminded me of the issue in 7.1.x.

We used a bit older version which is compatible with PHP 5.3 

Avatars looks fine there - http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin720b2/forum/ 

Please could you be more specific on this ? screenshot ?

I mentioned it in this post:

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Photo-Thumbnails-Resize-Algorithm-Needs-Revisiting.htm