wok annotate libgd/description.txt @ rev 25096

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author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Sat Jun 18 15:13:12 2022 +0100 (2022-06-18)
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Hans-G?nter@24611 1 GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images
Hans-G?nter@24611 2 by programmers.
Hans-G?nter@24611 3 GD is written in C, and "wrappers" are available for Perl, PHP, ruby
Hans-G?nter@24611 4 and many other bindings.
Hans-G?nter@24611 5
Hans-G?nter@24611 6 GD has builtin support for:
Hans-G?nter@24611 7
Hans-G?nter@24611 8 * BMP (builtin)
Hans-G?nter@24611 9 * GIF with animation support (builtin)
Hans-G?nter@24611 10 * TGA (builtin)
Hans-G?nter@24611 11 * WBMP (builtin)
Hans-G?nter@24611 12 * WebP via libwebp
Hans-G?nter@24611 13 * PNG via libpng
Hans-G?nter@24611 14 * JPEG using external library:
Hans-G?nter@24611 15 libjpeg-turbo (recommended)
Hans-G?nter@24611 16 libJpeg-
Hans-G?nter@24611 17 Does not include JPEG2000
Hans-G?nter@24611 18 * AVIF via libavif
Hans-G?nter@24611 19 * HEIF via libheif - This includes AVIF read support if your system's
Hans-G?nter@24611 20 libheif has AV1 decoding.
Hans-G?nter@24611 21 * TIFF via libtiff
Hans-G?nter@24611 22 * XPM via libXpm
Hans-G?nter@24611 23
Hans-G?nter@24611 24 GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most
Hans-G?nter@24611 25 anything else, on the fly. It is lite weight and fits usages like web
Hans-G?nter@24611 26 development, embemdedded, or any other usages you may need.
Hans-G?nter@24611 27
Hans-G?nter@24611 28 It supports transparency, blending, images transformations and various
Hans-G?nter@24611 29 filters. Its design allows the additions of custom features in a very
Hans-G?nter@24611 30 friendly manner.