On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <jyoun...@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 -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list