GD Graphics Library

GD Graphics Library

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and "wrappers" are available for Perl, PHP and other languages. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything else, on the fly. While not restricted to use on the web, the most common applications of GD involve web site development.


The GD library has moved to libgd.org, thanks to the hard work of Pierre Joye of the PHP project. The project is now headed by Pierre Joye, a well-known PHP developer. Pierre welcomes the contributions of distribution maintainers and other developers.