From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001 - 13:55:34 IST
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:50:38PM +0100, Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T mentioned:
> PHP has functions for doing this - ImageCreateFromText(), for example. RTFM
> and look at the Image Functions (chapter XXXI). You need to compile PHP
> with the GD library with jpeg-6b.
>
> PHP will handle PNG, JPG and SWF files (Yep, that's Flash files!). GD no
> longer manipulates GIF images, but you can still you PHP for getting the
> image size of a GIF image.
>
> GD is available at http://www.boutell.com/gd/ and jpeg-6b is available at
> ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg
>
> You can also use Type-1 fonts using t1lib (needs to be compiled in too!).
After spending an hour trying to build PHP with that support, I've
decided to forget it completely...
Kate
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