RE: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-11 Thread Gareth Ardron
At 09:14 11/10/2002 +0200, BUSTARRET, Jean-Francois wrote: >We are currently building apps for French iMode, and have to use a >closed-source non-free Windows DLL to generate our images (can't use GD >and imageMagick's dithering algorithm is shitty). have a look at imlib2 and the various comma

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-11 Thread Sander Roobol
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:49:07AM +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Tit "Black" Petric wrote: > >since gd is supposed to be bundled and packed together with php4.3 i just > >wanted to know if the patch for imagettftext for the truecolor rendering > >will be applied to its source,

RE: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread BUSTARRET, Jean-Francois
> It's only GIF. You shouldn't be using it anyway. Well... In fact, sometimes we have to use it ! Japan's iMode (which is being deployed in Germany & France) only supports GIF for now. We are currently building apps for French iMode, and have to use a closed-source non-free Windows DLL to gene

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> this would be a good idea for 4.3 (i understand the bundled lib will be > included with 4.3 already, right?), i dont see a reason in adding extra > defines for read_only etc, if you can circumvent the patent just by not > using lzw (until the patent expires, which should be by the time 5.0 comes

RE: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Mike Robinson
er 10, 2002 8:52 PM > To: Joye Pierre-Alain > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd > > > > imho, GIF format is dead, still used but dead ;) Providing read > > functions > is > > enough. > > I prefer to see a mng support in futur versions

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Tit \"Black\" Petric
> imho, GIF format is dead, still used but dead ;) Providing read functions is > enough. > I prefer to see a mng support in futur versions (http://www.libmng.com/) backwards compatibility is still backwards compatibility.. either you support it full, or you dont support it at all. as for having

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Tit \"Black\" Petric
> > i didnt know patents can expire.. and it would be logical to assume there > is > > some way to extend the ownership/validation - like domains etc > > Yes, they do. Once it expires, it becomes "public domain", of sorts. IANAL, > but I do know that this is a big intellectual property issue here

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
We'd have to remove all US mirrors, various distributions like RedHat, and whoever else bundle PHP wouldn't be able to do so from the US servers and all sorts of other complications. So yes, the rest of the world will have to wait for the US patent to expire. It's only GIF. You shouldn't be usi

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Tit \"Black\" Petric
> > gif support is not likely to be re-added, correct? > > I added GIF Read-only support already. We cannot add Gif-write support > until the Unisys patent expires next year. whats the status on the IMG_* constants then, i dont know about IMG_GIF_READ and/or IMG_GIF_WRITE, there is only IMG_GIF.

RE: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Mike Robinson
> > p.s. is development on the original libgd officially stopped and/or > > propertiary so there is no public CVS of its latest version? > > Dunno, ask the authors. That won't do any good. Requests for info seem to go the same route as patches and suggestions -> /dev/null. A shame really. The

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> gif support is not likely to be re-added, correct? I added GIF Read-only support already. We cannot add Gif-write support until the Unisys patent expires next year. > p.s. is development on the original libgd officially stopped and/or > propertiary so there is no public CVS of its latest vers

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Ilia A.
On October 10, 2002 06:37 pm, Tit \"Black\" Petric wrote: > > > > hmm.. any case that could be added perhaps in a more > > > > "imagecreatetruecolor" friendly way, a patch is better than no > > > > patch, even if it doesnt allways work :/ or atleast a function which > > > > would convert a gd reso

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Pierre-Alain Joye
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:37:45 +0200 "Tit \"Black\" Petric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually, i agree on making everything truecolor by default, as long > as ttftext gets fixed, and functions added > > gif support is not likely to be re-added, correct? Actually, I ve just seen a commit about

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Tit \"Black\" Petric
> > > hmm.. any case that could be added perhaps in a more > > > "imagecreatetruecolor" friendly way, a patch is better than no > > > patch, even if it doesnt allways work :/ or atleast a function which > > > would convert a gd resource created with imagecreate() to a > > > truecolor one, the oppo

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Pierre-Alain Joye
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:04:07 +0200 Pierre-Alain Joye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:00:47 +0200 > "Tit \"Black\" Petric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hmm.. any case that could be added perhaps in a more > > "imagecreatetruecolor" friendly way, a patch is better than no >

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Pierre-Alain Joye
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:00:47 +0200 "Tit \"Black\" Petric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm.. any case that could be added perhaps in a more > "imagecreatetruecolor" friendly way, a patch is better than no patch, > even if it doesnt allways work :/ or atleast a function which would > convert a gd

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Tit \"Black\" Petric
> >if it is not then http://www.coupin.net/gd-freetype/ has the diff/source for > >gd2.0.1 which i believe is the latest one > > (snip cvs log) > > It was added and then removed.. hmm.. any case that could be added perhaps in a more "imagecreatetruecolor" friendly way, a patch is better than

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundled gd

2002-10-10 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Tit "Black" Petric wrote: >since gd is supposed to be bundled and packed together with php4.3 i just >wanted to know if the patch for imagettftext for the truecolor rendering >will be applied to its source, or if its allready has been - i wouldnt want >it to be missed by acci

Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundled GD and ext/pdf

2002-08-29 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Jani Taskinen wrote: > This should be fixed now. It is. Thank you, Jani. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de/ -- PHP Development Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundled GD and ext/pdf

2002-08-29 Thread Jani Taskinen
This should be fixed now. --Jani -- On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Seems like ext/pdf cannot find gd.h of the bundled GD library from > ext/gd: > >/usr/src/php4/ext/pdf/pdf.c:43:16: gd.h: No such file or directory >/usr/src/php4/ext/pdf/pdf.c: In function `