Re: freetype2

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Sounds like a project to me! ;) Go nuts guys. A GD-like library able to > have different formats plugged in would be cool. Once you have a base api > for the library I bet you could rework a bunch of the netpbm/imagemagick > code to be pluggable. Sometimes I think I already went nuts. But what I meant was mostly reading an image from file, whatever format it is, imposing some text over it, and either writing it back to disk or sending it to the browser, once again in whatever format is suitable. And maybe drawing a line or filling an area. But not much more. I'd just forget both imagemagick and gimp libs, but with netpbm's code base and libs it might be possible to make something enough small, lightweight and fast. Anyway, I don't think there will be anything like this in PHP3 (At least, if it depends on me to do the coding. I'm not very fast, but I am quite lazy...). Probably in PHP4, when it goes public and contributors can start to work on it. Jouni