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&reftitle.required; If you have the GD library (available at &url.gd;) you will also be able to create and manipulate images. The format of images you are able to manipulate depend on the version of GD you install, and any other libraries GD might need to access those image formats. GIF support is available as of gd-2.0.28. libgd-2.0.4 or higher is required. As of PHP 5.5 libgd-2.1.0 or higher is required. Alternatively, use the bundled GD library that ships with PHP. You may wish to enhance GD to handle more image formats. Supported image formats Image format Library to download Notes gif Only supported in GD versions newer than gd-2.0.28. Write support is available as of PHP 5.0.1. jpeg &url.jpeg; When building the jpeg library (prior to building PHP) you must use the option in the configure step. If you do not, you will receive an error saying libjpeg.(a|so) not found when you get to the configure step of building PHP. png &url.libpng; xpm &url.libxpm; It's likely you have this library already available, if your system has an installed X-Environment.
You may wish to enhance GD to deal with different fonts. The following font libraries are supported: Supported font libraries Font library Download Notes FreeType 1.x &url.freetype; Support for FreeType 1.x has been removed as of PHP 5.3.0. FreeType 2 &url.freetype; T1lib &url.t1lib;) Support for Postscript Type 1 fonts (Removed as of PHP 7.0.0).
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&reftitle.resources; This extension defines the following resource types: List of resource types in GD Name Description Notes gd Image resource, used by functions like imagecreatefrompng gd font Font resource internally created by imageloadfont gd PS font PostScript Type 1 font resource, returned by imagepsloadfont Removed as of PHP 7.0.0. gd PS encoding PostScript Type 1 encoding resource, returned by imagepsencodefont Removed as of PHP 7.0.0.