Re: gd can handle only 256 colors?
| From: | Padmlin | Date: | Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:30:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: gd can handle only 256 colors? | ||
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How about Imagemagick?
Does it support/handle images with more than 256 colors?
----- Original Message -----
From: indrek siitan <tfr@cafe.ee>
To: David Diaz i Torrico <ddiaz@drac.com>; Padmlin <Padmlin@email.msn.com>;
<php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP] gd can handle only 256 colors?
> Hi,
>
> > AFAIK gd works with gif's
>
> the newer GD's (1.8 and up) don't support gif anymore, due to the
> stoopid licensing policy (how many of you know to and pay $5000
> to Unisys for having a couple of .gifs on your homepage?)
>
> > maybe you should try to generate png images which (I think) use
> > 24 or 32 bits instead of gif.
>
> actually, nope :( GD's PNG support is a lousy hack from gif
> support and hence supports only 256 colours too (although the
> format allows much more).
>
>
> Rgds,
> Tfr (been there, got screwed)
>
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