Re: images without GD
| From: | JohnP | Date: | Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:24:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: images without GD | ||
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Have you thought of using ImageMagik? Alot more functional in my opinion!
JohnP
"Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> wrote in message
news:B98D6449.E84D%justin@indent.com.au...
> Hi all...
>
> For the moment, my host doesn't support GD, but they're working on it.
I'd
> like to assemble heading images from a range of pre-built smaller GIFs
(a-z,
> 0-9, etc).
>
> It's easy enough for me to write something like:
>
> <IMG SRC="h.gif" />
> <IMG SRC="e.gif" />
> <IMG SRC="l.gif" />
> <IMG SRC="l.gif" />
> <IMG SRC="o.gif" />
>
> ... Or even write a function that write the HTML code for me... but I
> shudder at the amount of server calls, the sluggish speed, needless
waiting,
> etc etc.
>
> So, I was hoping to be able to grab h.gif, e.gif, l.gif and o.gif, and
join
> them all together to make a single gif/jpg/png, and call it with:
>
> <IMG SRC="heading.php?str=hello" />
>
>
> But my guess is that I'm completely outta luck until the host brings their
> new servers online.
>
> Is that about the size of it?
>
>
> Justin
>