Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)

Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)

Posted Jan 11, 2006 22:58 UTC (Wed) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal) by evgeny
Parent article: Creating/Manipulating Images with gd (Linux Journal)

> once you begin worring about the quality, it becomes inadequate. Drawing thin lines, patterned lines, control of beveling, linecaps...

GD is used by recent versions of gnuplot, and produces very nice plots indeed. I agree that its handling of antialiasing is inadequate (except for fonts, where it uses libfreetype). However some of the other issues you mention, like beveling, are not an intrinsic limitation of the library, just an unfortunate choice of default settings. You can get better line quality and line joins by defining your own brushes rather than using the default.

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