Re: GD graphics library

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          James Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri 29 Jun, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> > Hmm. It appears that his source zip does contain gd's source.

> Is there any chance you could find a moment to look at what would be
> involved in getting the Perl GD module to interface with it? Please...

The latest version is available from http://www.boutell.com/gd/ (although it
only produces PNGs and JPEGs).

> > I'm still subscribed.
> > I'm also subscribed to rather a lot of other lists, and usually
> > distracted by bleadperl on unix. [aargh. Crays and UTS. aargh]

> Oh dear, I guess that means you're far too busy to take a look at GD
> then. :-(  There's a chance that it might be easy to do, isn't there?
> Maybe you could just have a quick look...

Have you considered using fly (until someone does)?  The RISC OS version is
available from http://www.w3perl.com/fly/fly-1.6.5.RiscOS.zip

Other precompiled versions and full source are also available from
http://www.w3perl.com/fly/

It's based on the GD library and uses a command file based interface to
create GIFs (which is quite easy to do, esp if you open fly as a process and
write the neccessary commands straight to it).

I haven't used it for ages, ISTR it being quite straightforward.

Yours,


Geoff.
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