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# Contributing to GraphicsMagick

The future and success of GraphicsMagick depends on your contributions. By contributing to GraphicsMagick you will benefit from the features/fixes you contribute, can take pride in taking part in the development of a quality product, and you can tell your friends that you contribute to the GraphicsMagick project.

There are a number of ways you can contribute:

- Submit bug reports to the GraphicsMagick bug tracking system at SourceForge.

- Submit patches to the GraphicsMagick patch submission system at SourceForge.

- Perform test builds on unusual systems and report the results.

- Submit ideas and proposed designs to the graphicsmagick-core mailing list.

- Create a new language interface, dependent library, or application.

- Join the GraphicsMagick Group as a full-fledged developer with Mercurial commit access.

- Develop new 'convert6' and 'mogrify6' front ends which emulate essential option parsing features of ImageMagick 6.X while supporting operations currently in GraphicsMagick.

Regardless of how you choose to contribute, your contributions will be treated with the respect and value that they deserve.

Becoming a member of the GraphicsMagick Group requires a majority vote from existing members. Your chances of being admitted to the group are increased significantly if you have a proven track-record of success on other open source projects, are a recognized expert in the field, or have already demonstrated your capabilities and commitment by contributing to the project in other ways. Please contact Bob Friesenhahn <bobjfriesenhahn@gmail.com> in order to be considered for group membership.

# Areas To Contribute

The following are areas where significant contributions may be made to the GraphicsMagick project:

- Create a language interface using SWIG <https://www.swig.org/> to support scripting in Perl, Python, TCL/TK, Guile, MzScheme, Ruby, Java, PHP, and CHICKEN, based on a common implementation.

- Create a new utility command parser based on a separate LALR or XML-based syntax definition, and using an approach suitable to replace the existing error-prone command parsers in magick/command.c

- Create a vector encoder for EPS, Postscript, PDF, SVG <https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/>, WebCGM <https://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/>, or WMF.

- Create an OpenEXR coder based on the OpenEXR <https://www.openexr.com/> library from Industrial Light & Magic.

- Create a pstoedit module to import Postscript, EPS, and PDF files as vector data using pstoedit <http://www.pstoedit.net/> which already includes a high-quality driver to render Postscript vectors via GraphicsMagick. This module could also export vector data in many formats using pstoedit's output drivers.

- Add integrated Adobe XMP <https://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/index.html> profile support for TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, EPS, and Postscript.

- Port Erik Reinhard's super-cool Parameter Estimation For Photographic Tone Reproduction <https://doi.org/10.1080/10867651.2002.10487554> algorithm to GraphicsMagick.

- Create portable GUI which can work under Microsoft Windows, OS-X, X11, and Wayland (via a portable widget toolkit), to replace the outdated X11 GUI implmentation.

- Create an interface between GraphicsMagick and Apache OpenOffice <https://www.openoffice.org/> or LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org/ so that Apache OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice may load and save any format supported by GraphicsMagick.

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