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Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the
ImageMagick API.
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ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images..
It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100)
including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
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