RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF support
| From: | Joseph Tate | Date: | Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:23:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF support | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre-Alain Joye [mailto:paj@pearfr.org]
> 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'll support LZW compression if you recompile it and the tiff libraries.