Re: Re: images without GD

Could be good -- just a dig around the website... Do you have some experience with it? My guess is that since i'm on a shared ISP, I won't be able to get it running within my docroot... How does PHP interact with ImageMagik? I can't see any related functions. Justin French on 24/08/02 5:24 PM, JohnP (aerc@aerc.biz) wrote: > 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 >> > >