Re: [MacPerl-Porters] GD

[Jim Miner <jfm@winternet.com>]

At 3:49 PM -0400 7/15/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>Well, libgd has been taken off the net.  Does GD need to be removed from
>the MacPerl distribution?
>
>    http://www.boutell.com/gd/
>

This site has since been updated with news of gd version 1.6...

    We are pleased to be able to bring you a new version of gd.
    Version 1.6 completely replaces GIF images with PNG images.
    Please note that you will need to make code modifications to
    use version 1.6. This should be straightforward. Both major
    web browsers and many other tools support PNG in their
    recent versions (4.04 for Netscape, 4.0 or possibly earlier
    for Internet Explorer). PNG also produces highly compressed
    images. Version 1.6 produces palette-based PNG images only;
    however, version 2.0 will support truecolor, and also JPEG.
    We are also in the process of reevaluating the RLE-based
    compression used to make LZW-compatible GIFs in gd version
    1.3. -- Boutell.Com, Inc.

Hmmm.  I hope GIF creation can be re-enabled for general distribution.


Jim

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Jim Miner          jfm@winternet.com

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