Re: Need help with installing ImageMagick from PERLZ site

Thanks Bryan - I will have to look at that sometime, it doesn't seem to be quite what I need now - I am looking at getting a PAGSEG from a TIFF as one of our options. Another option is to use the AFPRSC keyword where PAGSEG is now - this is a direction IBM has been taking for a while now - so we don't NEED to mess with PAGSEGs - one problem in 7.1, Host Print Transform doesn't recognize AFPRSC - but in 7.2 it does, IiRC. We're still at 7.1, however.

On 4/7/2016 8:43 AM, Bryan Dietz wrote:

there is a TIFF2PDF here:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/uzaemon/#download

have not used in a long time, so not sure if it is relevant.

Bryan

Scott Klement wrote on 4/6/2016 11:37 PM:

Vern,

Hmmm.. I did make one with libtiff at one point because someone (I no
longer remember who) was bugging me to do it. But that was so long ago,
I can no longer remember much about it...

Getting things from perzl is probably the best way to go these days.
When i've used that wwwperzl.sh script, however, I found that it
installs a TON of unnecessary dependencies. So I've been telling it to
not include any dependencies (I forget what the option is for that off
the top of my head) then I run the program and see what dependency it
fails on, and just install that... possibly repeating this "try and see
what fails" a few times until it works.

Also, I would recommend installing sshd (if you haven't already) and
connecting to PASE with a terminal program like Putty. It works soooo
much better than trying to use PASE from a 5250 terminal.

I would be very careful about using QP2SHELL (or QP2SHELL2) as they will
try to run the PASE program in the same job as the program invoking the
API, and therefore that job must have it's descriptors set up properly.
Some really good software can have very strange problems running in
QP2SHELL if you don't set up good, threadsafe, descriptors.

Therefore, I don't use QP2SHELL. Instead, I use a tool like my UNIXCMD
utility, or if I don't want to add that as a dependency, I use the
STRQSH command when I call PASE software from my RPG/CL programs. These
tools set up the descriptors properly to avoid errors.

-SK


On 4/6/2016 1:05 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Hi all

I want to get the latest version of ImageMagick for a project - to
convert PNGs to GIF or TIFF.

I had put Scott's bundle on - it's an older version and includes libpng
and libxml, and not libtiff.

I tried to follow Tony Cairns' article at Yips -
http://yips.idevcloud.com/wiki/index.php/PASE/OpenSourceBinaries

As often seems the case, there are assumptions made that I don't know
when working in the AIX-ish world. So I have at least a couple questions.

1. Do I have to be QSECOFR or have *SECOFR class to get these things to
install completely or at all?
- I downloaded everything as instructed, got the stuff into
/QOpenSys/download, etc.
- Executing setup2.sh, I got a bunch of "objects not deleted", as I
recall
2. I was able to get the dependencies list using wwwperzl.sh and list
things and all.
3. When I ran wwwperzl with the wget option, I got lots of "wget not
found" - so it was not installed using the setup shell script

I've been OK'd to ask our systems guy to help out - and I want some
clarifications before I go there.

Hope that's enough to help y'all figure out what'll help me!!

Cheers
Vern