Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

Hi, > If you think that imagemagick is great, so don't you write an extention for it yourself. > Other developers can deside on buildtime which image library they use. I posted this link already before. An (experimental) interface already exists (done by chregu): http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pecl.imagick.php I am asking to make imagemagick a native extension to PHP, which is primarily an documentation issue. If someone searches for image functions in the manual not the GD library, but imagemagick should appear. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php If GD was so great, why do products like typo3 and "gallery" rather use imagemagick? Maybe because it's more feature-rich, supports 68 formats and can do ALOT of effects? http://www.typo3.com/Server_software_and.1051.1.html http://www.menalto.com/projects/gallery/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index Did you have a look at imagemagicks feature list? Isn't it exactly what people would like to do? ------------------------------------------------------- Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do: - Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG) - Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image - Create a montage of image thumbnails - Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web - Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence - Create a composite image by combining several separate images - Draw shapes or text on an image - Decorate an image with a border or frame - Describe the format and characteristics of an image - .. http://www.imagemagick.org ------------------------------------------------------- -daniel