gm-installation.md

GraphicsMagick installation

This guide will help you install the required dependencies to get started!

Linux (Debian based)

For linux users, you can run the following commands on your terminal.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript
$ sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick

Once everything is installed, the library should work as expected.

Mac OS

For rich people, you can run the following commands on your terminal.

$ brew update
$ brew install gs graphicsmagick

Once everything is installed, the library should work as expected.

Windows

For windows users.. open the links and download installers.

• Download Ghostscript 9.52¹ for Windows: https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs952
• Download GraphicsMagick for Windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/files/graphicsmagick-binaries/

Add the executable directories to the PATH environment variable for Ghostscript and GraphicsMagick:

• C:\Program Files\gs\gs****\bin
• C:\Program Files\GraphicsMagick-****

AWS Lambda

For lambda you can add the required libraries using lambda layers. There are prebuilt, community driven layers for both GraphicsMagic and Ghostscript.

Example ARNs are:

arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:175033217214:layer:graphicsmagick:2
arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:764866452798:layer:ghostscript:15

You can also build and publish your own layers. A guide how to publish GraphicsMagick layer can be found here.

Footnotes

1. An error occurred when the Ghostscript version was 9.53 or later. ↩