Ack!
No, that is no longer the case.
Please see: Re: Re: Resizing an image with perl.

I was going to post code, but silent11's is nearly identical to mine.
So instead I will post this and you can see GD create true color images.
:^)
http://www.xtype.org/albums/photo.cgi?img=01368&size=640x480

Ciao, -xtype

PS. note the slight difference when creating a new image? 
sub resize {
  use GD;
  my($data, @size) = @_;
  my $image = GD::Image->newFromJpegData($data, 1);
  my @isize = $image->getBounds();
  my $new_image = GD::Image->new(@size, 1);
  $new_image->copyResampled($image,0,0,0,0,@size,@isize);
  return $new_image->jpeg(75);
}

[download]
http://search.cpan.org/author/LDS/GD-2.01/GD.pm if you need help.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Resizing images without Image::Magick by xtype
in thread Resizing images without Image::Magick by z28

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