ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn more about ImageMagick and GD Library and discover why they are currently present on almost every web server.
If you want to have dynamic images on your site, the web server in which you host it needs to have the appropriate software for that. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a website visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images through a script app. All of these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that may be set up on a web server and which work with a large amount of widespread scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you can use images with any web-based application you'd like, regardless of the language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will allow you to work with over one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our outstanding cloud hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our
Linux website hosting you get, both applications will be available and activated by default for your brand new account. They'll be part of the software setting for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you choose because we provide a number of different releases. Every custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the nature of your website, you will also be able to offer a lot of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network website and many others.
