ImageMagick and GD Library
What's ImageMagick employed for? What is the GD Library? What is the reason for their popularity?
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widespread graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website doable, so they need to be available on a server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you shall be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. However, these tweaks are feasible if the script app which you use on your internet site enables you to perform such things. The 2 libraries could be used with a lot of website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than one hundred frequently used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the
Linux shared hosting service that you select when you sign up. This will help you create interactive sites without worrying about any kind of tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while when you have a social network or a similar website which engages your guests in some way, you'll be able to offer them a number of editing options for the photos they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that provides you with quite a lot of opportunities as to what content you can offer on your site.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new
semi-dedicated server account will be created, so you can use all the features of any script application which requires any of these 2 libraries so as to manage images, such as Joomla
™, WordPress, photo galleries, user discussion forums, and the like. In case you are a website designer, you're able to write the program code yourself as we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what sort of apps you are able to run, we support several different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2. GD and ImageMagick shall be enabled for all of them, which means that the software environment on the servers will not restrict your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can host.