Ruby/GD 0.7.4

An extension library to use Thomas Boutell's gd graphics library from Ruby. You can create PNG, GIF or JPEG images with your Ruby script.

Ruby/GD requires gd library with PNG support(i.e. the version 1.6 or later). See 'doc/INSTALL.en' for detail.

The latest version is available from: kirara.prec.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tam/GD/

Ruby/GD is formerly known as “GD”, originally written and maintained by Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto (matz@ruby-lang.org). From this release of 0.7.0, Ruby/GD is maintained by Ryuichi Tamura (tam@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp).

Changes from the version 0.7.4

Changes from the version 0.6.2

Contents

readme.en this file readme.ja Japanese version of this file extconf.rb ruby script generating Makefile for this extension library GD.c source file

doc/INSTALL.en how to install (in English) doc/INSTALL.ja how to install (in Japanese) doc/manual.rd Reference manual written with RD format doc/manual.html manual converted into HTML

sample/example.rb sample script to show the basic usage of Ruby/GD library sample/gdtestttf.rb translated Ruby script from gdtestttf.c sample/gdtestttf.png ./gdtestttf.rb > gdtestttf.png sample/webpng.rb translated Ruby script from webpng.c

Install

see 'doc/INSTALL.en'

Reference

see 'doc/manual.html'

Licence

Ruby Library Licence

Maintainer

Ryuichi Tamura (tam@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

Bug reports, comments, suggestions to this maintainer are welcome, but ruby-talk mailing list would be the best place for discussion :-).