Ah, good to know about the COM interface. I wonder if it's still in the the current version -- at least now I know to look.

thanks,

Hank

PS: of course in Lianja I'd use one of the Python libraries, enabling the service to run on Windows and Linux.

>Ah! I remember i put an application for imaging with imagemagick with an old version (binary to install ImageMagick-6.6.5-10-Q16-windows-dll.exe).
>all with visual foxpro and automation (IM is shipped with a com object dll) or command lines.
>http://leafe.com/download/magickcmd.zip
>warning: the difrent IM versions are not entierly compatible.
>
>Of course if work with imaging from vfp there is 2 tools can drive that with 100% vfp code:
>-native vfp9 gdiplus class (shipped with vfp9)
>-gdiplusX (download stable version 20 in codeplex).