Re: ImageCreateFromString; support for .gd and .gd2
| From: | Jani Taskinen | Date: | Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:21:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ImageCreateFromString; support for .gd and .gd2 | ||
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Holger Schopohl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>ImageCreateFromString doesnt support .gd and .gd2
>file types.
>I think, its important to support this
>types, because ImageCreateFromString its ideal for
>images from databases and .gd2 its much more faster
>than PNG.
>Explicite the time to save a PNG with ImagePNG and
>higher resolutions (>800x600) is absolute not reasonable.
I added the GD2 support for this function now.
I don't think the 'plain' GD support is that useful..
>Also i miss an implementation of the memory block functions
>of libgd, like
>gdImagePngPtr, gdImageJpegPtr, gdImageWBMPPtr, gdImageGdPtr,
>gdImageGd2Ptr.
>
>This is usefull for getting an image with ImagePNG,
>manipulate it and wrote direct to a database.
This would have needed more work..I'll look into this
when I have more time. If someone else has time/interest
to implement this, feel free. :)
--Jani