Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-29 Thread Gerald Richter
Hi, I am a little bit late for this thread, but anyway... I looked at Apache::ImageMagick last night however, and although it seems pretty usefull, it doesn't really address what I want to do with my module. I read your original RFC and as far as I see you can do everything you have

[RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-12 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
This is an request for comments. If you don't care about dynamic image generation with mod_perl, or don't care about offering or reading about suggestions, you can safely ignore this. Also, be forewarned, this was written in StarOffice, and then copied/pasted into my email program, and hand

[RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-12 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
This is an request for comments. If you don't care about dynamic image generation with mod_perl, or don't care about offering or reading about suggestions, you can safely ignore this. Also, be forewarned, this was written in StarOffice, and then copied/pasted into my email program, and hand

[RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-12 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
This is an request for comments. If you don't care about dynamic image generation with mod_perl, or don't care about offering or reading about suggestions, you can safely ignore this. Also, be forewarned, this was written in StarOffice, and then copied/pasted into my email program, and hand

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: With regard to dynamic image creation The most basic uses of this application will to dynamically generate TTF text for titles, buttons, sidebars, etc. The current version of this code does this, and quite well. Foreground and background colors,

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael A Nachbaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael This is a mod_perl handler, not directly tied in with my Michael content management system, but is/will be used extensively by Michael it. The premise is to dynamically generate images, cache Michael them, and present them to

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:32:55 +0200 Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at Apache::ImageMagick In my benchmarks I ran, ImageMagick was way slower than GD. I wrote a little test, rendering a little text image of 120x30. With ImageMagick, I was getting 0.3 rps, and under GD with similar

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:52:31 +0100 (BST) Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic text support could be extended to allow for images to be overlayed on the text (or placed under the text), or stretch images similarly to how Enlightenment displays window manager themes. Hmm, yes. I

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Ed
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:46:11AM -0700, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:32:55 +0200 Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at Apache::ImageMagick In my benchmarks I ran, ImageMagick was way slower than GD. I wrote a little test, rendering a little text image of

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Ed
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:42:42AM -0700, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: This is an request for comments. If you don't care about dynamic image generation with mod_perl, or don't care about offering or reading about suggestions, you can safely ignore this. Also, be forewarned, this was written

Re: [RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-10 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
On 10 May 2002 06:39:47 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Like http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col33.html perhaps? Been there, Done that. Feel free to steal the code. Like that, but a bit more so. And I'd like to avoid ImageMagick like the plague. -- -man

[RFC] Dynamic image generator handler

2002-05-09 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
This is an request for comments. If you don't care about dynamic image generation with mod_perl, or don't care about offering or reading about suggestions, you can safely ignore this. Also, be forewarned, this was written in StarOffice, and then copied/pasted into my email program, and hand