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DESCRIPTION
gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from
other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .GIF file.
This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where .GIF
is the format used for inline images.
gd is not a paint program. If you are looking for a paint program, try
xpaint by David Koblas, available by anonymous FTP from ftp.netcom.com
in pub/ko/koblas. (That package is for the X Window System; for the Mac
and the PC, paint programs are considerably easier to find.)
gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation. It
is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink graphics
package, but version 1.3 incorporates most of the commonly requested
features for an 8-bit 2D package. Support for scalable fonts, and
truecolor images, JPEG and PNG is planned for version 2.0. Version 1.3
was released to correct longstanding bugs and provide an LZW-free GIF
compression routine.
AUTHOR
gd 1.2 was written by Thomas Boutell and is currently distributed by
boutell.com, Inc.
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