> > Where it is a bit of a letdown is that it does not support GIF > > (copyright issues), transparency and animation. > > FWIW, GD supports the use of both alpha channels and transparent colours. > > http://au3.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecolortransparent.php It is great that the GD library supports all that, the question is however which of the hosters you can choose for cheap will have the newest versions installed and update all the time. What happened to PIMP - the vector based graphics libary (http://www.pearfr.org/pimp/) by the way? -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/