Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Image_Transform-0.2 (beta) Released.

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Blues wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, PEAR Announce wrote: > > The new PEAR package Image_Transform-0.2 (beta) has been released at > > http://pear.php.net/. > > Release notes > > ------------- > > First public release > > Package Info > > ------------- > > This package was written to provide a simpler and cross-library > > interface to doing image transformations and manipulations. > > It provides : > > * support for GD, ImageMagick, Imagick and NetPBM > > There will be more formats supported.... I think that it should be > separated to classes: Image_Transform_GD, Image_Transform_ImageMagick, > Image_Transform_Imagick, Image_Transform_NetPBM,.... > In that packages will be only driver for that library. > > Nice method to have nice scheme :) That's an interesting idea, but the average driver is only 6k (for now), so why not get them all in one go? Think of this like one of the database drivers; they all come in one package too. Personally, I like the ability to switch drivers for different things. For me, GD is fast, but the results are grainy, NetPBM produces the best output (text not withstanding) but is the slowest, etc. - Brent