This directory contains the GraphicsMagick 1.3.XX series of
releases. GraphicsMagick is a comprehensive image processing package
which is initially based on ImageMagick 5.5.2, but which has undergone
significant re-work by the GraphicsMagick Group to significantly
improve the quality and performance of the software. Please see
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ for more information.

The GraphicsMagick 1.3.XX.  distributions are based on the
"GraphicsMagick-1_3_XX" tag in the "GraphicsMagick-1_3" branch
(Substitute the trailing release number for the 'XX' part) in
GraphicsMagick Mercurial.  GraphicsMagick 1.3.X releases are usually
API and ABI compatible in order to allow upgrading the library without
rebuilding dependent applications.  However, applications using the
Magick++ library should be recompiled in order to use the 1.3.21 or
1.3.22 release.

Currently the following items are available from this directory or its
subdirectories.

  - GraphicsMagick portable core sources (GraphicsMagick-1.3*)

  - Windows source package and install packages (see windows subdirectory)

  - Linux source RPMs (see linux subdirectory)

  - A collection of the various third-party packages which GraphicsMagick
   optionally depends on (see delegates subdirectory).

  - Development source and binary snapshots of GraphicsMagick
   (see snapshots subdirectory)

Portable source package names follow the convention

    GraphicsMagick-X.X.X-.tar.[bz2|gz|lzma|xz]

  - bz2 is supported by bzip2 from "http://www.bzip.org/"

  - gz is supported by gzip from "http://www.gzip.org/"

  - lz is supported by lzip from "http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html"

  - lzma and xz are supported by XZ Utils from "http://tukaani.org/xz/"