Piping Support

[RyanBram]

I hope ImageWorsener developer want to add support for pipeline.

[jsummers]

I'm not really sure what this suggestion means. Multithreading? (Yeah, I'd like to try to support OpenMP, maybe.) Use GPUs? (No idea about this.) Something else?

[RyanBram]

What I mean is software pipelines, where commands can be written where the output of one program is automatically fed to the next, following program.
Following example is command for combining between ImageMagick Program with JP2a program:

convert somefile.png jpg:- | jp2a --width=76 -

" - " mark means that output from ImageMagic Convert will be send to stdout as input for stdin which will be received by jp2a program.

We do pipeline for jp2a, because jp2a only support jpg format as input, therefore by combining the program with ImageMagick, it can use ImageMagick as filter for pre-processing any image format to jpg format which jp2a understand.

[RyanBram]

Partially supported in 1.20 version.
Thank you very much Jason Summers.

[jsummers]

Closing this old issue. It's supported for most formats, and 100% support may not happen.