[Typo3-linux] JPG supported (not used by TYPO3)

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Francesco,

On 10/10/05, Francesco di Francia <darksky77 at email.it> wrote:

> i installed GraphicsMagick using the Stucky/Dimitri package ( by the
> way, thanks a lot ).

You're welcome. Glad it worked for you.

> I installed typo3.  All went ok.
> In the basic configuration i read this :
> JPG supported (not used by TYPO3)
> What does it means ? Is a normal thing or a bad one ?

This is normal, and unrelated to GraphicsMagick. This basically
describes the GD capabilities. GD is graphics library built into your
PHP interpreter. While GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick are used to scale,
adjust and do other stuff with the images that are typically photos,
GD is used to render text into an image using custom TTF fonts
residing on the server (in other words, graphics-based menus and
headers). As you have probably found out before, JPEG is not the best
format for having large areas of single color (like background for
rendered text), so TYPO3 does not use JPEG _for_text_rendering_.

Hope this clarifies it a bit.

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Dimitri Tarassenko