Posts tagged imagemagick
Macports fails to compile p5-perlmagick
Nov 29th
If you need PerlMagick on a Mac, there was (and still is) a p5-perlmagick package. If you try to install that package now, you’ll find it doesn’t compile (!!). You don’t have to resort to compiling from source, though.
How to Convert Your Book’s Images to Kindle
Nov 7th
Taking your painstakingly typeset book and shoving it through the kindle “conversion” meatgrinder was an exercise in wincing. Most of the images were corrupted, there was whitespace sprinkled randomly throughout the copy, and it was a general mess.
Kindle supports direct upload of an html version of your book, but there’s a lot of finessing you need to do before it all goes smoothly. One of the tasks you’ll need to do is convert your book’s images to greyscale, and reduce their size to something Kindle-friendly. There are free tools to help you do this if you aren’t afraid of the terminal.