All I want to do is resize some graphics!

I spent way too much time last night tring to get ImageMagick [1] installed on my Mac mini. I compiled and installed the latest version, but each time I tried using it, I kept getting:

>
```
convert: no decode delegate for this image format (jpeg)
```

A Google search [2] on the error didn't prove anything conclusive. Even installing an older version didn't work (same error). The binary install of ImageMagick was useless as that's for Tiger, and apparently, I don't have Tiger but Panther (gee, what ever happened to things like version 10.4 or 10.3?).

Eventually, I was able to find a package I could install [3], but by then several hours had passed, and all I wanted to do was resize some pictures.

Sigh.

[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=convert%3A+no+decode+delegate+for+this+image+format

[3] http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/

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