note 23529 deleted from ref.image by victor

After finally getting the GD 2.x lib to compile into Php and work with Apache I did some tests and then found a link to some code that uses Imagemagick and the system() call. Imagemagick won hands down in quality produced. There is no speed difference that I can tell with the naked eye :) It's nice that Php created functions with GD in mind and I don't know what the deal is with doing the same with Imagemagick but it would have saved me a lot of hours of searching and compiling if I would have known that Imagemagick could produce thumbnails without all the hassle of upgrading the GD lib. Still, I have to thank all of those that left comments in all of these pages so that I could do it all on my own! Without subjecting our company to a fee :P Here is the website link that got me started with the Imagemagick: http://www.snipe.net/geek/toolz/imagemagick.php?show_source=yes and here is the message contents that finally got my GD 2.x lib to work with Php ---------the next few lines are copied from the guru that first wrote them---- 0. Make sure you have libjpeg and libpng installed 1. Grab GD-2.0.1. 2. tar zxvf gd-2.0.1.tar.gz 3. cd gd-2.0.1 4. Edit the Makefile and change the LIBS line to be: LIBS=libgd.a -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lfreetype -lm 5. make libgd.a (don't need to do a make install) 6. Now build PHP using these flags: --with-gd=/home/<you>/gd-2.0.1 --with-freetype-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf (for PHP 4.0.6 leave off trailing 'f') --enable-gd-imgstrttf --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-zlib