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97<p class="lead magick-description"><a href="api/Magick++/index.html">Magick++ API</a> is the object-oriented C++ API to the <a href="../">ImageMagick</a> image-processing library.</p>
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134<h2>Usage</h2>
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142<pre class="highlight"><code>c++ `Magick++-config --cxxflags --cppflags` -O2 -o demo demo.cpp \
143  `Magick++-config --ldflags --libs`
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145<p>Set the <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> environment variable if ImageMagick is not in your default system path:</p>
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147<pre class="highlight"><code>export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
148</code></pre>
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150<p>Windows users may get started by manually editing a project file
151for one of the Magick++ demo programs.
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153<p>Note, under Windows (and possibly the Mac) it may be necessary to initialize the ImageMagick library prior to using the Magick++ library. This initialization is performed by passing the path to the ImageMagick DLLs (assumed to be in the same directory as your program) to the InitializeMagick() function call. This is commonly performed by providing the path to your program (argv[0]) as shown in the following example: </p>
154<pre class="highlight"><code>int main( int argc, char ** argv) {
155  InitializeMagick(*argv);
156  ...
157</code></pre>
158<p>This initialization step is not required under Unix, Linux,
159Cygwin, or any other operating environment that supports the notion
160of <var>installing</var> ImageMagick in a known location.  </p>
161<p>Here is a example program that utilizes the Magick++ API to get you started, <a href="https://imagemagick.org/source/magick++.cpp">magick++.cpp</a>. It reads an image, crops it, and writes it to disk in the PNG image format.</p>
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163<pre class="pre-scrollable highlight"><code>
164#include &lt;Magick++.h>
165#include &lt;iostream>
166
167using namespace std;
168using namespace Magick;
169
170int main(int argc,char **argv)
171{
172  InitializeMagick(*argv);
173
174  // Construct the image object. Seperating image construction from the
175  // the read operation ensures that a failure to read the image file
176  // doesn't render the image object useless.
177  Image image;
178  try {
179    // Read a file into image object
180    image.read( "logo:" );
181
182    // Crop the image to specified size (width, height, xOffset, yOffset)
183    image.crop( Geometry(100,100, 100, 100) );
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185    // Write the image to a file
186    image.write( "logo.png" );
187  }
188  catch( Exception &amp;error_ )
189    {
190      cout &lt;&lt; "Caught exception: " &lt;&lt; error_.what() &lt;&lt; endl;
191      return 1;
192    }
193  return 0;
194}
195</code></pre>
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