Re: GIF support
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:08:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GIF support | ||
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:01:06 +0100
"Carsten Gehling" <carsten@sarum.dk> wrote:
> A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because
> of Unisys' license on the LZW compression format.
>
> Then how can ImageMagick support it?
afaik, it supports uncompressed GIF, which is useless :). PHP bundled GD
supports read support for GIF, as far as you do not need to output GIF
images (mobiles) try to use png or others formats instead.
> It would sure be nice with an API to ImageMagick (PHPMagick?) as found
> in Perl. Has anyone started on this before, then I would like to know
> about it. I could give it a go myself, but would rather not start from
> scratch.
imagick extension for php:
http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=76
hth
pa