in reply to Producing images on the fly.

I'm looking for a perl module that will produce GIFs on the fly in response to a CGI request.

GD.pm used to emit GIFs, but that support was removed due to (Unisys) patent licensing considerations. GD now emits PNGs.

If you can make do with PNGs instead of GIFs, GD is probably what you're looking for. Or, you might be able to score an older version of GD that still has GIF support.

Or, in the unlikely event that you want to paint your 200x200 image in one color, you might be able to modify On-demand single-pixel GIFs.

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