It’s official – Zend have accepted our Zend_Image proposal. Credit goes to Dolf Schimmel for writing the initial proposal and liaising with the Zend team.
Zend_Image will initially support two adapters, Gd and Imagick (ImageMagick), and Gmagick support may be added in future. The following common image operations will be supported:
- Resize
- Rotate
- Watermark
- Filtering
- Format Conversion (e.g. JPG to PNG)
- Drawing (lines, arcs, ellipses, polygon, text)
Major benefits of Zend_Image include portability and a uniform API across adaptors. It will also be possible to define custom and composite actions for reuse.
We’re excited to proceed with development and hoping for inclusion in the forthcoming 1.10 release. We welcome your feedback on the proposal page if you have ideas or comments.
