2011-09-25T15:57:40-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com// Savonix 2010-06-15T11:43:13-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2010/06/15/font-face <p>CSS3 ushers in a myriad of cool, new capabilities for making the web an even <em>cooler</em> resource, and a couple of them are similar to gdofcgi functions:</p> <ul> <li>@font-face</li> <li>image resizing</li> </ul> <h2><strong>@font-face</strong></h2> <pre class="sh_css"> @font-face { font-family: ‘coolfont’; src: url(‘coolfont.eot’); /* IE6+ */ src: url(‘coolfont.woff’) format(‘woff’), /* FF3.6 */ url(‘coolfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’); /* Saf3+,Chrome,FF3.5,Opera10+ */ } </pre> <h2><strong>Image Resizing</strong></h2> <pre class="sh_css"> -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic: introduce in IE7 image-rendering: optimizeQuality: introduced in FireFox 3.6 -moz-transform: scale(sx[, sy]) -webkit-transform:scale(sx[, sy]) </pre> <h2><strong>Impact</strong></h2> <p>Will this affect the utility of gdofcgi? Not really, as far as I can see. Some fonts don&#8217;t have licenses which allow embedded in user browsers, and it may be faster to use gdofcgi in some scenarios.</p> <p>Also, image resizing <em>en mass</em> will definitely be more efficient by doing it once on the server, instead of every time a client loads the image.</p> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2303690/resizing-an-image-in-an-html5-canvas">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2303690/resizing-an-image-in-an-html5-canvas</a></li> </ul> 2010-05-20T12:43:43-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2010/05/20/new-feature-image-resizing <p>Based on another NGINX module, the image filter module, I&#8217;ve created a new binary for resizing images.</p> <p>It&#8217;s extremely new and untested, but its available in the repository.</p> <p>I&#8217;m pretty excited about it, as this is something I&#8217;ve wanted to setup for a long time.</p> 2010-05-19T20:44:58-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2010/05/19/no-anti-aliasing-for-circles <p>I&#8217;m implementing some new ideas into GD over FastCGI and one of them is based on an NGINX module for creating gif circles.</p> <p>Why do such a thing? They can be used to create rounded corners on HTML elements!</p> <p>Unfortunately, and surprisingly, GD doesn&#8217;t support anti-aliasing alpha channels! Its surprising because it handles anti-aliasing with TrueType fonts so incredibly well.</p> <p>I guess a workaround could be to find a TrueType font that has an exact circle character and use that instead of manually drawing a circle.</p> <p>Alas, its not really necessary at all, because the only browser which really needs something like this is Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the versions which need it don&#8217;t even support PNGs with alpha channels (out of the box).</p> 2010-05-19T18:58:28-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2010/05/19/new-parameter-padding <p>This is useful for some wacky fonts which don&#8217;t work well with the brect sizing technique with libgd.</p> <p>Right now it adds the padding to all dimensions, but I&#8217;m thinking about setting up settings for left, right, top and bottom.</p> 2010-05-19T16:49:19-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2010/05/19/finally-moved-to-github <p>I&#8217;ve finally moved the source code for GDoFcgi to Github. Enjoy!</p> <p><a href="http://github.com/docunext/gdofcgi">http://github.com/docunext/gdofcgi</a></p> <pre class="sh_sh"> git clone git://github.com/docunext/gdofcgi.git </pre> <p>Feel free to fork, its explicitly licensed as BSD / MIT / GPL. You&#8217;ll have to decide!</p> 2010-02-24T05:18:22-05:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2010/02/24/js-function-for-converting-hex2rgb <p>I&#8217;ve been looking for something like this:</p> <p><a href="http://gist.github.com/278311">http://gist.github.com/278311</a></p> 2009-11-19T21:52:15-05:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/11/19/requirements <p>To Build GD over FastCGI:</p> <ul> <li>cdb</li> <li>libgd</li> <li>libfastcgi</li> <li>qDecoder</li> </ul> 2009-11-19T21:47:58-05:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/11/19/bug-fixes-and-lingering-questions <p>I revisited GD over FCGI yesterday as some larger fonts were getting cropped. That is now fixed! I also updated a lot of the code to make the program more robust and less prone to failure.</p> <p>There are still some outstanding questions:</p> <ul> <li>How should multiple / custom font folders get supported? Currently the path to the aenigma folder is hard-coded.</li> <li>Which standard CGI library should I use?</li> </ul> 2009-10-23T17:55:58-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/10/23/cgi-support <p>I&#8217;ve decided to add CGI support at some point in the future. Why?</p> <p>Here&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve decided to add CGI support:</p> <ul> <li>FastCGI processes consume memory while they run</li> <li>CGI binaries can be run by lots and lots of simple HTTP daemons</li> <li>Caching proxies can prevent unnecessarily starting and restarting gdofcgi processes</li> </ul> <p>I&#8217;m planning to retain support for FastCGI of course!</p> 2009-07-04T15:20:05-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/07/04/works-with-apache-mod-fcgi-and-lighttpds-spawn-fcgi I&#8217;m pleased to report that I&#8217;ve finally got GD over FastCGI working with both Apache mod_fcgi and Lighttpd&#8217;s spawn-fcgi!<br /><br />There is still a lot of work to do regarding font paths, but I had to report this important milestone in the progress. <br /> 2009-06-23T12:47:34-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/06/23/gd-over-mod-fcgid I&#8217;m pleased to report I&#8217;ve made a lot of progress towards getting gdofcgi working with Apache 2.2 and mod_fcgid. The major difference between using NGINX and Apache2 with FastCGI is that NGINX has a query string parser that can be used to pass variables to fastcgi servers. Its convenient, but not very portable.<br /><br />Instead, its now using qDecoder. qDecoder is a nice CGI / FastCGI library written in C which has a terrific license and lots of really helpful functions for a project like gdofcgi (as well as <a href="http://www.dbrs2xml.com/site/">dbrs2xml</a>).<br /> 2009-06-18T21:49:38-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/06/18/gd-over-fastcgi-wiki Its alive, using Ikiwiki: <br /><a href="http://www.gdofcgi.com/wiki/"><br />gdofcgi wiki</a><br /> 2009-05-07T19:57:40-04:00 http://www.gdofcgi.com//blog/2009/05/07/new-project This is a new project I&#8217;m working on. Use of the GD library for graphics generation via FastCGI.<br />