Re: gd can handle only 256 colors?

Are you saying php_imlib will handle images with more than 256 colors? ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt McClanahan <cardinal@dodds.net> To: indrek siitan <tfr@cafe.ee> Cc: David Diaz i Torrico <ddiaz@drac.com>; Padmlin <Padmlin@email.msn.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:37 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] gd can handle only 256 colors? > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, indrek siitan wrote: > > > 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). > > Which is one of the primary reasons I wrote php_imlib, the ability to use > a respectable number of colors. :) Unfortunately it won't help you if > you're a Windows user. > > http://mmcc.cx/php_imlib/ > > Matt >