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diff --git a/www/FAQ.rst b/www/FAQ.rst index 390f3fd..067adaa 100644 --- a/www/FAQ.rst +++ b/www/FAQ.rst @@ -100,16 +100,17 @@ CPUs. Regardless, `Amdahl's law in GraphicsMagick, with non-parallelizable code paths often dominating the time. -It is my belief that stand-alone GPUs are a poor design (expensive, -inefficient, failure-prone, bandwidth bottlenecked, lack -functionality, are insecure, and are not supported in servers) and -that multi-core CPUs will ultimately prevail. Functionality which -currently works best in a GPU will simply be integrated into -tomorrow's multi-core CPUs and C compilers will naturally support that -functionality. Once GPU capabilities are integrated into CPUs, there -will be no more need to develop specialized code for a GPU. Today 16 -core CPUs are readily available for purchase in systems at reasonable -prices, and this trend is certain to continue. +It is my belief that stand-alone GPUs are a poor design for general +computing tasks (expensive, inefficient, failure-prone, bandwidth +bottlenecked, lack functionality, are insecure, and are not supported +in servers) and that multi-core CPUs will continue to dominate the +computing market. Functionality which currently works best in a GPU +will simply be integrated into tomorrow's multi-core CPUs and C +compilers will naturally support that functionality. Once GPU +capabilities are integrated into CPUs, there will be no more need to +develop specialized code for a GPU. Today 16 core CPUs are readily +available for purchase in systems at reasonable prices, and this trend +is certain to continue. Future multi-core CPUs will use a similar amount of power to today's CPUs, will idle at very low power consumption levels, and will fit @@ -491,7 +492,7 @@ How can I add one of those cool bevels to my image that I see used on the Web? There are four types of ornamental borders you can add to your image with GraphicsMagick. Each is listed below with the procedure to use -them with your image. +them with your image. * Surround the image with a border of color @@ -589,7 +590,7 @@ How can I convert my GIF animation sequence to individual image files? Use the scene embedded file format with convert_:: - gm convert animation.gif +adjoin frame%02d.gif + gm convert animation.gif +adjoin frame%02d.gif The resulting image files are titled frame01.gif, frame02.gif, frame03.gif, etc. @@ -617,7 +618,7 @@ applied to another image.. Use the -map option of the convert_ command:: - gm convert -map netscape: alpha.gif beta.gif + gm convert -map netscape: alpha.gif beta.gif Netscape predefines 216 colors for colormapped displays. Use the above command to ensure only these predefined colors are used. Otherwise @@ -646,7 +647,7 @@ Unix does, causing the documented command to fail. The following command has been reported to work correctly (all on one line):: gm convert -font Arial -fill blue -draw "text 10,10 'your text here'" \ - d:\test.tif png:d:\test.png + d:\test.tif png:d:\test.png and here is another example which is reported to work (which relies on Ghostscript's 'gs' program to installed):: @@ -734,7 +735,7 @@ What does `identify` report? ---------------------------- GraphicsMagick is sophisticated image handling software supporting -perhaps a hundred formats, and hundreds of subformats, yet it needs to +over a hundred formats, and hundreds of subformats, yet it needs to be able to apply image processing algorithms in a consistent way, and save to many output formats. Some image types are radically different from others. Due to this, GraphicsMagick normalizes images it reads |