Switch from ImageMagick to VIPS #85
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Apparently Extension:PdfHandler has a hard dependency to ImageMagick. |
root-fs/app/conf/LocalSettings.php
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| $GLOBALS['wgEnableUploads'] = true; | ||
| $GLOBALS['wgUploadPath'] = $GLOBALS['wgScriptPath'] . '/img_auth.php'; | ||
| $GLOBALS['wgUseImageMagick'] = true; | ||
| $GLOBALS['wgUseImageMagick'] = false; |
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Is this a required settings by Extension:Thumbro? Telling from its usage of the BitmapHandlerTransformHook, which is called at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/REL1_43/includes/media/TransformationalImageHandler.php#232 , scaler "hookaborted" will be used as an overwriting option regardless of the $wgUseImageMagick config value.
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In fallback case https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/REL1_43/includes/media/BitmapHandler.php#596 one will use GD. According to https://github.com/libvips/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use GD is actually faster than ImageMagick? Not really sure here.
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Apparently ImageMagick is very resource consuming. Using a tool like
vipsmay reduce the this.ERM43030
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