Name : libgd2
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Version : 2.0.15
| Vendor : MandrakeSoft
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Release : 3mdk
| Date : 2003-08-09 07:47:53
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Group : System/Libraries
| Source RPM : gd-2.0.15-3mdk.src.rpm
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Size : 0.40 MB
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Packager : Gwenole Beauchesne < gbeauchesne_mandrakesoft_com>
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Summary : A library used to create PNG, JPEG, or WBMP images
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Description :
This package contains the library needed to run programs dynamically linked with libgd
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 PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Webapplications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inlineimages by most browsers.
gd is not a paint program. If you are looking for a paint program, 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 1.7.3 incorporates most of the commonly requested features for an 8-bit 2D package.
GIF creation will not reappear in gd until the patent expires world-wide on July 7th, 2004. I realize this situation is frustrating for many; please direct your anger and complaints toward the questionable patent system that allows the patenting of such straightforward algorithms in the first place.
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RPM found in directory: /vol/rzm6/linux-mandriva/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS |