John Cupitt

Hi @seanvancity, Yes, I use 8.6.0 on my mac. You're right, there ought to be an updated binary. I did try but got stuck trying to get pangoft2 working. I...

... if you'd like a go, the binary is built by this thing: https://github.com/jcupitt/build-osx You might be able to find the missing thing, whatever it is.

Hello @aravind3134, You can draw anything with SVG, for example: ```python import pyvips x = pyvips.Image.svgload_buffer(b""" """) x.write_to_file("x.png") ``` It can draw any size image and it's pretty quick. Use...

Your libvips has been built without librsvg. You'll need to install librsvg-dev and rebuild it.

It won't work in conda. Anaconda is a different world and nothing works properly unless there's an official conda package. You need to switch to standard Python, or wait for...

Is this Ubuntu? Just `sudo apt install libvips-dev`, then `pip3 install pyvips`. Don't use conda! Uninstall it, and everything related to it. Alternatively, I'm trying to make a libvips package...

You can do this via command-line args as well, it might be simpler. For example, put this into `join.nip2`: ``` #!/home/john/vips/bin/nip2 -s main = foldl1 join_lr images { images =...

You could also split your function into chunks. I think (from memory) that limit is for a single definition, there's no limit for a file. You could write: ``` foo1...

One more thing, when nip2 opens a file, it has to make sure it has random access to the pixels, since it doesn't know how you might end up using...

There's an updated libvips in Debian experimental. Hopefully this'll get into Ubuntu soon. vips8 was released in May, so it's early days still. Yes, the functional stuff is fun, isn't...