GD 2.0 on the horizon

[Robert Chavez]

Maybe this is old news, but I thought I had better post it anyway.  Those
of use who are using tiff images with mapserver are drooling right now.

Rob Chavez
Programmer, GIS Specialist
Perseus Project

>From the GD web site:

gd 2.0 is coming! Expect a beta release of gd 2.0 around March 20th, 2001.
gd 2.0 features extensive support for true color images ("millions of
colors"), which allows the reading and writing of truecolor PNG and JPEG
images with drastically better results. Alpha channel blending is also
supported, both within the gd drawing engine itself and in the final
output image. Also, gd 2.0 is built as a shared library. Final
fixes and documentation changes will be made next week after I return from
vacation. -Tom Boutell