"image rendering" in RevServer?

[Mike Bonner]

Not to divert this thread too awful much, but i'm hoping for integration
with the gd library, similar to how php does it, but hopefully in a more
livecodey way.

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

How php does it:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.image.php

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> I've seen tutorials for setting up RevServer on Dreamhost, but none for
> using this new undocumented "image rendering" capability.
>
> Since DH uses Debian Server, which is faceless, how can we expect the
> necessary GUI libs to be in place for such rendering?
>
>
> Björnke von Gierke wrote:
>
>> should work, there's a dreamhost tutorial on the forum somewhere, i think.
>>
>> On 29 Oct 2011, at 16:10, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>  Andre wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:57 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  yeah, it would be nice if we could use some of the image-processing
>>>>> features we have on the desktop.  We could create bitmap images
>>>>> like characters, barcodes, graphs and charts in real time and then
>>>>> display them.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> if you're running Rev 3.5 CGI and have some form  of X server running
>>>> such
>>>> as X framebuffer, then you can do it. =)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I take it that's not likely to work on a typical shared-host setup like
>>> Dreamhost, eh?
>>>
>>> Dang.  Would be nice to be able to take inputs from the user to generate
>>> a customized image....
>>>
>>
>
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