Re: Image Manipulation

There has been much discussion of this of late, and it is probably an indication of how short the collective memory is that the netpbm toolkit is never mentioned in this context, even though I think it remains the best tool for image manipulations of these sorts, at least on UNIX platforms... Cheerio, Rick Rodgers > From: "Kevin Rose" <krose@bluebonnet.net> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:20:12 -0500 > Subject: [PHP] Image Manipulation > > Hello, > > I would like to get the community's thoughts on image manipulation tools. > > I have a project I need to overlay some text over a graphic (similar to the common tutorials -- > building a graphic button dynamically). > > The archives seem to mention to basic tools -- GD and ImageMagick. What are the pros, cons, > etc. of using the tool. I would like to get started on the right foot with the proper tool. I am > using PHP4. > > Is FreeType still the basic ttf library in use? > > In addition every tutorial I see uses GIF images, after seeing some recent posts (and knowing > the patent issues), I would also like to stay away from them (I think), so how does this come into > play? > > TIA, > Kevin