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@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and "wrappers" are available for Perl, PHP and other -languages. GD creates PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, XPM, BMP images, among other -formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and -most anything else, on the fly. +languages. GD can read and write many different image formats. GD is commonly +used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything else, on the +fly. The most common applications of GD involve website development, although it can be used with any standalone application! @@ -20,3 +20,21 @@ umbrella of PHP.net. ## Downloads/etc... Please visit our [homepage](http://www.libgd.org/) for more details. + +## Supported Image Formats + +GD has builtin support for: + +* [BMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format) +* [GIF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF) +* [TGA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision_TGA) +* [WBMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol_Bitmap_Format) + +It also has optional support for more formats via external libraries: + +* [JPEG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG) via [IJG/libjpeg](http://www.ijg.org/) or [libjpeg-turbo](http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/) + * Does not include [JPEG 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000) +* [PNG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics) via [libpng](http://www.libpng.org/) +* [TIFF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format) via [libtiff](http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/) +* [WebP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) via [libwebp](https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/) +* [XPM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap) via [libXpm](http://xorg.freedesktop.org/) |