ImageMagick and GD

hansooloo

Joined: 2010-01-06
Posts: 4
Posted: Tue, 2010-12-28 09:33

I started my G2 install with GD, but then later on found out about ImageMagick. My questions are
1. Would having IM over GD make a difference?
2. Is IM preferrable over GD for certain scenarios?
3. If so, what are they?
4. If both are present on the system, what is G2's behavior?

 
suprsidr
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Joined: 2005-04-17
Posts: 8339
Posted: Tue, 2010-12-28 13:51

GD is known as the last resort image processing toolkit. If your host has IM installed and allows access to it, install and test the IM module, and then drop GD.

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