diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b01f3719..93a9caea 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - you can now set the jpeg quality factor for tiff pyramids (thanks Joe)
 - you can now shrink jpegs during read, see "man im_jpeg2vips"
 - added CMYK JPEG write
+- optionally use GraphicsMagick (thanks Bob Friesenhahn)
 
 12/12/07 started 7.13.3
 - added "include <cstring>" to VImage.cc to help gcc 4.3
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 85060b95..0e0b3ab6 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -61,11 +61,6 @@ WONTFIX
 
   or something like that?
 
-- can we use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick?
-
-  no: current stable GraphicsMagick is missing (at least) QuantumRange and
-  GetNextImageAttribute() ... perhaps this will be fixed in 1.2
-
 - TIFF load/save should use meta system for unknown tags
 
 - balance should use new meta stuff
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 6ab50228..1c41a3fd 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -180,12 +180,18 @@ if test x"$with_fftw3" != "xno"; then
 fi
 
 # ImageMagick ... detect attribute iteration too
+# Optionally look for GraphicsMagick instead 
 AC_ARG_WITH([magick], AS_HELP_STRING([--without-magick], [build without libMagic (default: test)]))
+AC_ARG_WITH([magickpackage], AS_HELP_STRING([--with-magickpackage], [magickpackage to use (default: ImageMagick)]))
+
+if test x"$with_magickpackage" == "xno"; then
+  with_magickpackage=ImageMagick
+fi
 
 if test x"$with_magick" != "xno"; then
-  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MAGICK, ImageMagick, 
+  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MAGICK, $with_magickpackage, 
     [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_MAGICK,1,[define if you have libMagick installed.])
-    PACKAGES_USED="$PACKAGES_USED ImageMagick"],
+    PACKAGES_USED="$PACKAGES_USED $with_magickpackage"],
     [AC_MSG_WARN([libMagick not found; disabling Magick support])])
 fi
 
diff --git a/libsrc/conversion/im_magick2vips.c b/libsrc/conversion/im_magick2vips.c
index d921764a..c4c37ff8 100644
--- a/libsrc/conversion/im_magick2vips.c
+++ b/libsrc/conversion/im_magick2vips.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
  * 	- set RGB16/GREY16 if appropriate
  * 10/8/07
  * 	- support 32/64 bit imagemagick too
+ * 21/2/08 Bob Friesenhahn
+ * 	- use MaxRGB if QuantumRange is missing
  */
 
 /*
@@ -85,6 +87,12 @@ im_magick2vips_header( const char *filename, IMAGE *im )
 
 #include <magick/api.h>
 
+/* pre-float Magick used to call this MaxRGB.
+ */
+#if !defined(QuantumRange)
+#  define QuantumRange MaxRGB
+#endif
+
 #ifdef WITH_DMALLOC
 #include <dmalloc.h>
 #endif /*WITH_DMALLOC*/
@@ -211,7 +219,9 @@ parse_header( Read *read )
 	IMAGE *im = read->im;
 	Image *image = read->image;
 
+#ifdef HAVE_GETNEXTIMAGEATTRIBUTE
 	const ImageAttribute *attr;
+#endif /*HAVE_GETNEXTIMAGEATTRIBUTE*/
 	Image *p;
 	int i;