# imageworsener mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für imageworsener in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:imageworsener
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install imageworsener
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#imageworsener
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/im/imageworsener/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:imageworsener
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.5
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Utility and library for image scaling and processing
- **Homepage:** <https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- imagew (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.3.5
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ImageWorsener is Jason Summers' cross-platform image scaling and processing utility and C library. Its own documentation jokes about degrading images, but the core goal is high-quality, correctness-oriented image resizing and processing rather than speed.

### Projektgeschichte

ImageWorsener began in 2011 and reached public 0.9.0-era tags that year. The readme for version 1.3.5 lists copyright years 2011-2022, describes a command-line utility plus library, and records a licensing change from GPLv3+ in versions through 1.1.0 to an MIT-style license afterward.

The project developed around precise treatment of resampling, gamma correction, transparency, grayscale conversion, and high bit depth images. Its technical notes explicitly describe the program as a correctness-first tool that does not trade accuracy for speed, while also separating a core processing library from file-format I/O and the `imagew` command-line frontend.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

ImageWorsener's adoption has been modest but durable. It appears in Homebrew and Nix metadata and is packaged in other Unix-like ports systems, but its niche is less everyday image conversion and more users who care about resampling behavior, gamma correctness, and reproducible command-line processing.

The project site provides source archives and Windows binaries, while the GitHub repository offers source-control access. Homebrew analytics show sparse installs, which matches a specialized utility whose main value is fidelity and technical documentation rather than broad batch-conversion convenience.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The `imagew` command reads an input file and writes an output file, with options for resizing, best-fit behavior, format selection, bit depth, dithering, posterization, grayscale conversion, background colors, and channel offsets. It supports regular files, standard input/output schemes, and Windows clipboard input for some builds.

The documentation emphasizes file-format support for PNG, JPEG, BMP, and WebP, with partial support for GIF, TIFF, MIFF, and Netpbm-family formats. The library API is intentionally lower level and less documented than the command.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ImageWorsener is interesting to package nerds because it is the opposite of a convenience wrapper: a small C utility that prioritizes image-processing correctness and documents the tradeoffs. Its long technical notes make it a reference-like package for people comparing resampling behavior across ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick, and purpose-built tools.

### Zeitleiste

- 2011: Early ImageWorsener tags and copyright history begin.
- 2011: Version 0.9.0 appears in the source repository.
- 2010s: The project accumulated technical essays on resampling, gamma, grayscale, alpha resizing, and filters.
- 2022: Version 1.3.5 was released with source archives and Windows binaries.
- 2026: Homebrew continues to package ImageWorsener as a niche image-processing utility.

### Related projects

- The technical notes compare ImageWorsener's space with ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick, and cite resampling discussions such as Eric Brasseur's gamma article and VirtualDub's resampler article as inspirations. Its file-format support also depends on libraries such as libpng, zlib, libjpeg, and libwebp when enabled.

### Quellen

- <https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/imageworsener.json>
- <https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsummers/imageworsener/master/readme.txt>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsummers/imageworsener/master/technical.txt>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - imageworsener: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/im/imageworsener/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/imageworsener.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/imageworsener.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph