Package: libmagick++9-dev (7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny3)

C++ API to the ImageMagick library - development files

Magick++ supports an object model which is inspired by PerlMagick. Magick++ executes faster than PerlMagick since it is accessed from a compiled language rather than from a scripting language. This makes it more suitable for Web CGI programs which must start-up and execute quickly. Images support implicit reference counting so that copy constructors and assignment incur almost no cost. The cost of actually copying an image (if necessary) is done just before modification and this copy is managed automatically by Magick++. De-referenced copies are automatically deleted. The image objects support value (rather than pointer) semantics so it is trivial to support multiple generations of an image in memory at one time.

Magick++ provides integrated support for STL. This support allows Magick++ to be used with the Standard Template Library (STL) so that the powerful containers available (e.g. deque, vector, list, and map) can be used to write programs similar to those possible with Perl and PerlMagick. STL-compatible template versions of ImageMagick's list-style operations are provided so that operations may be performed on multiple images stored in STL containers.

This package includes header files and static libraries needed to compile programs using libMagick++.