[Bioperl-l] bioperl graphic question

Jason Stajich jason at cgt.duhs.duke.edu
Tue Dec 30 10:24:12 EST 2003


We might want to post pointers to gd2 rpms for the redhat crowd...
as RH 9 still ships with libgd 1.8.x


-jason
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Todd Harris wrote:

> Hi Jun Hu -
>
> As noted in the install guide, you will need to upgrade your libgd.
> Although using libgd 1.8.4 may not necessarily result in runtime errors,
> graphical elements may not appear as intended.  Some glyphs will not render
> at all with 1.8.4.
>
> We needed to move to libgd2 in order to support the generation of both
> raster (png) and vector (svg) images from the same codebase.
>
> todd
>
>
>

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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu


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