[Bug 479374] Re: xaralx needs imagemagick 6

[Alex Bligh]

The debian guys have noticed this too. I am not in a position to look at
it, but here's an extract from an email I sent to Joachim on the dev
list.

I would guess the patch is very trivial.

Alex

--On 5 October 2009 23:21:58 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>
wrote:

> I just received this bug report. Is there still anyone out there
> interested in keeping XaraLX running and willing to look at the issue?

I keep meaning to find out why it won't run properly on later Ubuntu. I
suspect it's a couple of hours work.

> I guess, without checking, that it can be fixed easily by adjusting the
> version number parser.

So, what it does is try to find ImageMagick and warn you if it's not
there, but it only displays the warning once. After that it's suppressed
(by the prefs file, not the lock file) which is correct behaviour.

>From memory, it does "convert --version" to get the version of ImageMagick.
It's then meant to do a compare, and if the major version is greater than
6.0, it's meant to be OK. Either there will be a trivial bug in this, or
it can't find ImageMagick at all.

You could try manually altering the prefs file and put in the pref
"ImageMagickPath".

Beyond that, the function concerned is in wxOil/imgmgkft.cpp

My guess (without testing) is that "convert --version" no longer
gives a string that starts:
 "Version: ImageMagick "
to which it is textually compared around line 1498.

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