in reply to gdImageCreateFromGd2Part

Are you by any chance converting a script from another language or perhaps using the gdlib documentation rather than the GD docs?

I ask, because I cannot see any evidence of a function called gdImageCreateFromGd2Part() being exported from GD.pm.

I think that the function you are looking for is exported from GD as $image = GD::Image->newFromGd2Part($file,srcX,srcY,width,height).

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