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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:33:26 +0100
:Revision: 		3
:Copyright:		CC by-sa


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Published article "Image creation with PHP"
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:Description:
  I just published a article series on "Image creation with PHP" as my
  personal christmas present to the PHP community. This is a full guide,
  covering several libraries (DOM/SVG, Cairo, Ming/Flash, GD) and all the
  important topics. Read on for details...

I just published a article series on "Image creation with PHP" as my personal
christmas present to the PHP community, whcih can now be found in the `article
section of my blog`__. This is a full guide, covering several libraries
(DOM/SVG, Cairo, Ming/Flash, GD) and all the important topics, when it comes
to image creation.

__ /blog/articles.html

The included topics are:

- `The articles starts comparing image formats and libraries, and evaluating
  them for the usecase: Graphics in the web.`__

- `After this, the canvas, basic data strucures and a first shape are created
  and rendered with all the backends describing and solving several library
  depending issues.`__

- `In the third part the images get more colorful by providing support for
  gradients in all backends - except GD ;)`__

- `Even with the vector graphic formats you may want to integrate bitmaps to
  the images, so that we also add support for this in all backends.`__

- `Text rendering is tricky, and this part describes how to solve this with
  all backends.`__

- `Finally the last part describes additional tools and helpers for easier
  image creation, together with a lookout what you might want to add to such a
  library.`__

__ /blog/image_creation_with_php_formats.html
__ /blog/image_creation_with_php_shapes.html
__ /blog/image_creation_with_php_gradients.html
__ /blog/image_creation_with_php_bitmaps.html
__ /blog/image_creation_with_php_texts.html
__ /blog/image_creation_with_php_tools.html

License
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The article and the code for the article remains under my personal copyright
and is not licensed under CC by-sa, as usual. I do this, because I am not
willing to maintain such a library for now, and the code has only been written
for educational purpose.

If you want to maintain the stuff and have time for further development,
including writing tests and stuff, we might agree on relicensing the code,
though.

Thanks
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Special thanks to `Tobias Struckmeier`__, who pointed me to several typos and
potential misunderstandings in the article draft.

__ http://blog.struckmeier.name/



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