Use of new GD 1.7.3

[Brent Fraser]

Doug,

  I did some experimenting with GD 1.7 some time ago.  As
I recall, no code changes were necessary, as Steve had already
inserted the call to gdImagePng if the USE_GD_1_6 define
was set at compile time.  Unfortunately, the mapserver executable
must be set up to use GIF OR PNG at compile time; it's not
switchable at runtime...  

  It did produce PNG images that looked like the GIF images.
My text was rotated 90 degrees, but I think that was an unrelated
problem.

Brent


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Nebert" <ddnebert at usgs.gov>
To: "Mapserver Users" <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 11:36 AM
Subject: Use of new GD 1.7.3


> I notice that the newest version of the GD library supports 
> only PNG instead of GIF.  If one uses it in lieu of an older 
> GD library under mapserver, will it just make PNG automatically 
> or do other configuration parameters need to be adjusted in 
> mapserver for operation? I'm assuming that PNG would be adequate 
> for most uses?
> 
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