Re: Imlib support...

> FreeType 2 support is something that should definitely be looked into. > I'm not sure where the Imlib2 author (Raster) stands on it, haven't > brought it up yet. File formats, as we've discussed, are easy since > Imlib2 uses a modular system for its loaders. You can literally add new > file loaders without restarting the PHP engine. (Whether or not this is a > good thing is another matter). Luckily, FreeType 2 support is just about criminally easy to implement with a 32bit imaging backend such as Imlib2. The current gdttf implementation is.. uh.. unelegant, mostly because antialiased text (even the two-bit variety in PHP) is difficult to render in a paletted 8bit system. FreeType 2, in contrast to the older FreeType versions, provides ready-to-use 8bit, 256-shade, antialiased bitmaps. In an ARGB system, this information can be dumped directly onto the Alpha channel to get the desired functionality. -- markonen@php.net