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diff --git a/graphics/gd1/pkg-descr b/graphics/gd1/pkg-descr index 3a8cb67..f6ec333 100644 --- a/graphics/gd1/pkg-descr +++ b/graphics/gd1/pkg-descr @@ -2,25 +2,22 @@ DESCRIPTION gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from - other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .GIF file. - This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where .GIF + other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .PNG file. + This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where .PNG is the format used for inline images. - gd is not a paint program. If you are looking for a paint program, try - xpaint by David Koblas, available by anonymous FTP from ftp.netcom.com - in pub/ko/koblas. (That package is for the X Window System; for the Mac - and the PC, paint programs are considerably easier to find.) + gd is not a paint program. If you are looking for a paint program, you + are looking in the wrong place. If you are not a programmer, you are + looking in the wrong place. - gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation. It - is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink graphics - package, but version 1.3 incorporates most of the commonly requested - features for an 8-bit 2D package. Support for scalable fonts, and - truecolor images, JPEG and PNG is planned for version 2.0. Version 1.3 - was released to correct longstanding bugs and provide an LZW-free GIF - compression routine. + gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation. + It is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink + graphics package, but version 1.7.3 incorporates most of the commonly + requested features for an 8-bit 2D package. Support for truecolor + images, JPEG and truecolor PNG is planned for version 2.0. AUTHOR - gd 1.2 was written by Thomas Boutell and is currently distributed by + gd was written by Thomas Boutell and is currently distributed by boutell.com, Inc. WWW: http://www.boutell.com/gd/ |
