Re: jpegs, gifs, and the PHP site

You wrote: > > 1/ The nice yellow boxes for searching and other uses on the main php > site are great. BUT, I wish they'd disappear when the page is 'off > clicked' from any link. Actually, and just MHO, I think such things suck. They just get in the way. > 2/ When is the gif/gd compuserve patent going to expire so it can be > included into php 4? http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html 'The LZW patent, as well as its international counterparts, and similar patents filed by others, are expected to remain valid for at least 20 years from the original filing date, i.e. until June 19, 2003.' If you want, I have (illegal in many countries) rpms (should work for you if you're using Linux (god forbid that you should use Internet Insecurity Services under Windows); if you're using any other *nix, I can send you the .spec and/or the three gd patches) of gd (also patched with a shared patch) and php patched to do gif, png, jpeg, truetype, etc. I haven't got around to testing them yet though. > 3/ is there an similar libraries for manipulationg jpegs? RTFM http://www.php.net/manual/ref.image.php 'In order to read and write images in jpeg format, you will need to obtain and install jpeg-6b (available at ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/), and then recompile gd to make use of jpeg-6b. You will also have to compile PHP with --with-jpeg- dir=/path/to/jpeg-6b.' PS. It is really painful to read your message because it is in HTML and some illegible sans-serif font (they are *all* illegible to someone like me, who gazes upon monospaced fonts all day and can truly appreciate their beauty :)). So please send your emails as plain text, not HTML. (This is a good idea for other reasons: saves the evidently creaking php mail server (HTML is 5* the size of plain text) bandwidth, saves space in my mailbox, as well as that of the other people on this list, and allows people that can't read HTML email to read the message. -- Random fortune Microsoft should switch to the vacuum cleaner business where people actually want products that suck.