Re: Image_Transform question

Hi Peter No hurry needed from my side. The project was just postponed for maybe another 2 weeks (adjusted priorities ), but then, i will certainly help out with an ext/imagick container and more imagemagick features :) chregu On Thu, 30 May 2002, Peter Bowyer wrote: > At 12:13 30/05/02 +0200, Christian Stocker wrote: > >Just had a quick look at Image_Transform and it looks very helpful. > > > >I will most certainly use it for a project of mine and i'll try to write a > >ext/imagick container for it. > > Thanks! I started one a couple of months back, but so much has changed in > the extension that it's useless now ;-) > > >To my question: How much sense does it make to integrate stuff which only > >is available in imagemagick, but not in gd (rotating or converting for > >example, but there are a bunch of other functions only imagemagick has, > >don't know about imlib and netpbm, though..). > > I think the features should be added, and emulated as far as possible in > GD. NetPBM can do most things, but it involves piping the output between > 5+ programs - a really strange way to work IMO, but as ImageMagick can't be > used on my server due to memory limits on each process I'm determined to > make the NetPBM extension work well :-) > > I haven't looked at imlib yet. > > By the end of the day I hope to have added the latest version to CVS, so > watch out for that, as it changes paths etc to make it compatible with the > PEAR installer (although there is no package.xml file yet)... and so far is > untested, and looks like staying that way, as I have no web hosting with > all the image libraries installed to allow me to run some tests :-) > > Peter > > -- > Maple Design - quality web design and programming > http://www.mapledesign.co.uk > > > -- christian stocker | bitflux GmbH | schöneggstrasse 5 | ch-8004 zurich phone +41 1 240 56 70 | mobile +41 76 561 88 60 | fax +41 1 240 56 71 http://www.bitflux.ch | chregu@bitflux.ch | gnupg-keyid 0x5CE1DECB