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2010/8/3 Philip Thompson <philthathril(a)gmail.com>

> On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:43 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way (I haven't found it yet) to create with a sequence of
> >> gifs an animated gif using php-gd?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Martín Marqués
> >> select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com'
> >> DBA, Programador, Administrador
> >>
> >
> > Not natively with GD. For more complicated image creation, such as
> > animated GIFs, you should look at ImageMagick. This tool has some
> > extremely powerful options, and there is a PHP module for working with
> > it if you can't or don't want to get dirty on the command line.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
> I thought that GIF was patented or copyrighted or something - didn't know
> if it was possible to create GIFs with ImageMagick/PHP. Did I pull that from
> left field
>




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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans_=C3=85hlin?= on
2010/8/3 Philip Thompson <philthathril(a)gmail.com>

> On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:43 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way (I haven't found it yet) to create with a sequence of
> >> gifs an animated gif using php-gd?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Martín Marqués
> >> select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com'
> >> DBA, Programador, Administrador
> >>
> >
> > Not natively with GD. For more complicated image creation, such as
> > animated GIFs, you should look at ImageMagick. This tool has some
> > extremely powerful options, and there is a PHP module for working with
> > it if you can't or don't want to get dirty on the command line.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
> I thought that GIF was patented or copyrighted or something - didn't know
> if it was possible to create GIFs with ImageMagick/PHP. Did I pull that from
> left field?
>

No, they released their patent a while ago .
(btw sorry for the empty mail, my web-browser crashed)

~Philip
>
> http://lonestarlightandsound.com/
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