Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Re: [macperl-porters] GD

[Peter Prymmer <pvhp@best.com>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> Like Chris said, we're not looking at doing away with GD by any means.
> It's just that there is some question about libgd, the C library that the
> GD extension is based on. It all has to do with the patent on LZW
> compression.
> 
> I think it really affects us only peripherally. Because we certainly will
> be able to have *a* GD.

It may be that Tom Boutell will even be able to put RLE GIF into gd 1.3
(as opposed to LZW GIF).

> I brought ImageMagick into the discussion because I think it's appropriate
> to discuss MacPerl support for more image formats. PerlMagick has made
> ImageMagick functionality available to Unix people for quite a while, and
> in conjunction with the helper libraries you have access to a whole bunch
> of formats. Pretty much all of the non-display part of both is a suitable
> candidate for MacPerlifying.

Is it not the case that several of the commercial/shareware image
file format converters for the Mac were based on Mac ports of netpbm?

Peter Prymmer



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