Re: FN-FORUM: Creating thumbnails

date posted 9th March 2006 18:55

Ray McGinty wrote:

> 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).

The GIF copyright lapsed a few years ago and GD 2.x now has all GIF
support reintroduced.

But maybe you should try to gently prod your customers towards using PNG
instead. It's a much nicer format.

Dave...