RE: FN-FORUM: Creating thumbnails

date posted 9th March 2006 17:17

If I remember correctly, it was versions 1.6 - 2 of the GD library that
didn't support gifs. It *should* work OK now.

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Sent: 09 March 2006 17:51
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Subject: FN-FORUM: Creating thumbnails


Hello All,

I have built an image library application (PHP/MySQL) which customers
use to upload pics to their sites within their CMS. It has a function
thumbnail() (see code below) which converts the full-size image to a
thumbnail for showing in the "gallery" view. The function uses NetPBM
tools to do the image manipulation.

I'm in the process of moving all my sites to a new server. The new
server doesn't have NetPBM tools installed, but it does have the GD
library. However I have read that GD does not support gif:

>> (gd does not support GIF anymore, because the packing algorithm in
>> GIF is copyrighted).

Obviously my customers will want to use gif.

Any idea how to get around this?


Best regards,

Ray

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