add option to render using imagemagick

README.md

@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 
 ##### Debian
 
-On debian, for python lxml dependencies:
+On debian you need to install ImageMagick and Python lxml dependencies:
 
 ```
-sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
+sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore5-extra libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
 ```
 
 Quick start

make.py

@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ parser.add_argument('--skip-frames', action="store", default=None, type=int, hel
     Skip first n frames e.g. to quickly rerender during debugging.
     Usage: ./make.py yourproject/ --debug --skip-frames 300
     ''')
+parser.add_argument('--imagemagick', action="store_true", default=False, help='''
+     Render frames using ImageMagick instead of Inkscape.
+     Usage: ./make.py yourproject/ --imagemagick
+     ''')
 
 if len(sys.argv) < 2:
     parser.print_help()

renderlib.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import cssutils
 import logging
 import subprocess
 from urllib.request import urlopen
+from wand.image import Image
 
 # Frames per second. Increasing this renders more frames, the avconf-statements would still need modifications
 fps = 25
@@ -168,6 +169,14 @@ def rendertask(task):
                 width = 1024
                 height = 576
 
+            if args.imagemagick:
+                # invoke imagemagick to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
+                infile = '{0}/.gen.svg'.format(task.workdir)
+                outfile = '{0}/.frames/{1:04d}.png'.format(task.workdir, frameNr)
+                with Image(filename=infile) as img:
+                    with img.convert('png') as converted:
+                        converted.save(filename=outfile)
+            else:
                 # invoke inkscape to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
                 cmd = 'cd {0} && inkscape --export-background=white --export-background-opacity=0 --export-width={2} --export-height={3} --export-png=$(pwd)/.frames/{1:04d}.png $(pwd)/.gen.svg 2>&1 >/dev/null'.format(task.workdir, frameNr, width, height)
                 errorReturn = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 cssutils==1.0.1
-lxml==3.4.4
-svg.path==2.2
+lxml==4.2.5
+svg.path==3.0
+Wand==0.5.0