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This is the gd gif-manipulating library, version 1.2. It was created to allow graphs, charts and the like to be generated on the fly for use on the World wide Web, but is useful for any application in which custom .GIFs are useful. It is not a paint program; it is a library. If you are looking for a paint program for the X Window System, check out David Koblas "xpaint", available by anonymous FTP from ftp.netcom.com in pub/ko/koblas. (I'm just a fan of Dave's code.) NOTE TO THE IMPATIENT: the Sun 'cc' compiler shipped standard with SunOS 4.1.3 is NOT AN ANSI C COMPILER and will not compile gd. Get and use gcc if you don't already have it, or use Sun's own commercial-grade ANSI C compiler if you prefer to purchase it. "What's new in gd 1.2?" Many bug fixes, ANSI C compliance, several new fonts and more. "Where's the manual?" Load gd.html into your web browser. Print it if you like, but <em>every single reference to a function is a hyperlink</em>, so the manual is especially good when read online! Note that the entire manual is one document, so it should be reasonably pleasant to read offline when printed. COPYRIGHT 1994,1995 BY THE QUEST CENTER AT COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS. Permission granted for unlimited use, provided that Thomas Boutell and the Quest Center at Cold Spring Harbor Labs are given credit for the library in the user-visible documentation of your software. If you modify gd, we ask that you share the modifications with us so they can be added to the distribution. See gd.html for details. gd has been compiled in various forms on all major platforms. It is happiest on a machine with 32-bit addressing and a proper stack (ie, anything running Unix, VMS, Windows NT or any other modern operating system), but is entirely usable under DOS and Windows. Note, however, that the flood-fill routines are mildly recursive and may fail on machines with tiny stack areas. Also, the fonts require a significant amount of memory (they are optimized more for speed than for size), but they need not be linked by applications that do not use them. Otherwise the code is highly portable as long as you have an ANSI C compiler. Full documentation is provided in HTML (World Wide Web) format in the file gd.html (part of this distribution). You can access the latest version of the file at the URL "http://siva.cshl.org/gd/gd.html". If you are unfamiliar with the World Wide Web, consult the Frequently Asked Questions posting of the appropriate comp.infosystems.www.browsers subgroup for your operating system to obtain more information on where to locate a hypertext browser. The text-based browser "Lynx" does a particularly good job of navigating the manual and will run on nearly anything. Netscape works fine too. If you don't have the patience to consult the manual first, build and examine gddemo.c (see the Makefile) and run it. It will read in demoin.gif and output demoout.gif, which you will want to examine with your GIF viewer to see the results. Tom Boutell, boutell@boutell.com http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/index.html P.O. Box 20837 Seattle, WA 98102
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