[thelist] bulletin board writes graphics on the fly

dwayne wrote in haste:
 > sadly, because of the unisys nonsense, the GD perl module no longer creates gifs - the maintained version emits PNGs. but I just took a quick spin on google, and found an earlier version quite quickly. you just won't find it on CPAN.

my CPAN mirror was running slow, so I fired that off before reading further - it's not gd.pm, but the graphics library, gd, that it uses that has the patent problems. the current version of gd emits PNGs, and the gd.pm interface was changed after version 1.19 to reflect that.

cf. http://www.boutell.com/gd/

- dwayne