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Octave will use [http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ GraphicsMagick] for reading and writing your images (not | Octave will use [http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ GraphicsMagick] for reading and writing your images (not plots, only if you are actually doing image processing). This means that the GraphicsMagick configuration you have on you system will limit what your Octave installation can do. Most systems will have it on their own repositories. Unfortunately, their configuration is not always the best for image analysis as it limits reading of images to 8-bit. | ||
To solve the problem, GraphicsMagick needs to be rebuilt with the appropriate settings. See below for tracking dependencies and the reasoning behind each flag. Once done, the following commands should work to build GraphicsMagick. | To solve the problem, GraphicsMagick needs to be rebuilt with the appropriate settings. See below for tracking dependencies and the reasoning behind each flag. Once done, the following commands should work to build GraphicsMagick. | ||
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./configure --with-quantum-depth=16 --enable-shared --disable-static --with-magick-plus-plus=yes | ./configure --with-quantum-depth=16 --enable-shared --disable-static --with-magick-plus-plus=yes | ||
make | make | ||
make check | make check | ||
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== Quantum depth == | == Quantum depth == | ||
The most common problem is the following warning when using {{Codeline|imread()}} | The most common problem is the following warning when using {{Codeline|imread()}}: | ||
<pre>warning: your version of GraphicsMagick limits images to 8 bits per pixel</pre> | <pre>warning: your version of GraphicsMagick limits images to 8 bits per pixel</pre> | ||
The reason for this is that GraphicsMagick was compiled with {{Codeline|--with-quantum-depth 8}}. Possible values are 8, 16 or 32, each implememnting that limitation. See the {{Path|INSTALL}} [http://graphicsmagick.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick/file/tip/INSTALL-unix.txt#l429 file] on GraphicsMagick sourcefor an explanantion of this. There has bugs reported requesting package maintainers to compile it with higher values. You should not create a new bug, instead leave a comment on the already open bugs: [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557879 Debian], [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphicsmagick/+bug/696215 Ubuntu], [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996411 Fedora]. | |||
As versions with higher values are not available on the repositories, the solution is to compile it. Octave needs then to be recompiled to use the freshly compiled Magick++ library. | |||
{{warning|Increasing quantum depth may have a dramatic increase in memory usage. If you use QuantumDepth 32, all images will be read with that precision even if they were saved with 8bit. This means that a 100MB 8bit image will temporarly take 400MB memory, or more if the image was compressed and they usually are, before Octave resizes it back down to 100MB. Because of this, because 32 bit integers images are rare, and because GraphicsMagick does not handle floating point, it's recommended to use QuantumDepth of 16.}} | |||
{{warning|Increasing quantum depth may have a dramatic increase in memory usage. If you use QuantumDepth 32, all images will be read with that precision | |||
== Magick++ == | == Magick++ == | ||
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! Dependency !! Debian Wheezy !! Ubuntu Precise | ! Dependency !! Debian Wheezy !! Ubuntu Precise | ||
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| | | BZLIB || libbz2-dev || libbz2-dev | ||
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| | | FlashPIX || || | ||
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| | | FreeType 2.0 || libfreetype6-dev || libfreetype6-dev | ||
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| Ghostscript | | Ghostscript || ghostscript || ghostscript | ||
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| | | Ghostscript-fonts || gsfonts || gsfonts | ||
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| | | JBIG || libjbig-dev || | ||
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| JPEG | | JPEG v1 || libjpeg8-dev || libjpeg-dev | ||
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| | | JPEG-2000 || libjasper-dev || libjasper-dev | ||
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| | | LCMS v2 || liblcms2-dev || liblcms2-dev | ||
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| | | ltdl || libltdl-dev || libltdl-dev | ||
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| | | LZMA || liblzma-dev || liblzma-dev | ||
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| | | PNG || libpng12-dev || libpng12-dev | ||
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| | | TIFF || libtiff5-dev || libtiff5-dev | ||
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| WMF || libwmf-dev || libwmf-dev | | WMF || libwmf-dev || libwmf-dev | ||
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| X11 || libx11-dev libxext-dev libsm-dev | | X11 || libx11-dev libxext-dev libsm-dev || | ||
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| XML || libxml2-dev || libxml2-dev | | XML || libxml2-dev || libxml2-dev | ||
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| ZLIB || zlib1g-dev || zlib1g-dev | | ZLIB || zlib1g-dev || zlib1g-dev | ||
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|} | |} |