in reply to Resizing an image with perl.

You probably want to consider using Image::Magick for this, since GD has issues with more then 256 color images

UPDATE: GD 2.00 was released just 3 days prior to this post, and reportedly fixes the 256 color issues.

UPDATE#2 while making update#1, i just realized i had linked to the completely wrong node about GD. I've fixed the link.

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Re: Re: Resizing an image with perl.
by xtype (Deacon) on Aug 15, 2002 at 08:29 UTC
    I am happy to say, that is not true.

    I think that you need to read:
    http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.1.html
    "...version 2.0 does include ... both truecolor and palette images, resampling (smooth resizing of truecolor images) and so forth. "
    After you have updating your gd library you should go and visit Lincoln Stein's space on cpan to download GD-2.01.
    http://search.cpan.org/author/LDS/

    I had been using GD-2.00 since the 6th with decent results and was very pleased to see GD-2.01 made available.
    Thanks Lincoln!
    An excellent module.

    Mmmm... 16,777,216 colors for me.

    ImageMagick is huge and slow. I was using shell tools (djpeg, etc) simply to avoid it.
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