Recently, I needed to install the GD Graphics Library locally on my Mac. GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. 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.

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I searched through a lot of tutorials, and found that most of them are out of date and/or incomplete. In spite of this, I finally managed to figure it out. However, I took notes on everything I did so that someone else needing to do this will find this helpful and won’t have to struggle with it as much as I did.

I have to admit I am pretty green when it comes to using command line and installing open source code on my computer. I have learned a lot though and I really enjoy it. I have found that the Mac is a great open source programming environment. Many programmers are figuring this out, and I believe you will continue to see more programmers coming to the Mac platform.

The Shapes Library panel manages libraries of reusable shapes. You can create your own libraries, save shapes, and reuse them throughout multiple projects. Graphic includes a few built-in example libraries to help you get started. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software.

Anyway, these instructions, as straightforward as they are, still assume you know the basics of how to install and run open source code on your computer. If you don’t, you need to go read more and then come back here. Now, let’s begin.

The first thing you need to do is download the packages you will need. Here is the commands you will use for the most current versions of these packages as of this posting.

curl -O http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz curl -O http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.20.tar.gz curl -O ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz curl -O http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz curl -O http://www.libgd.org/releases/gd-2.0.35.tar.gz

Download these packages to a directory on your hard drive. The next thing you need to do is unpack these directories. Running this command will unpack all the directories you just downloaded.
ls *gz | xargs -n 1 tar zxvf

First, we will install zlib by running the commands below.

cd zlib-1.2.3 ./configure --shared make sudo make install

Next, install libpng by running the commands below.
cd ./libpng-1.2.20 cp scripts/makefile.darwin Makefile

Open up Makefile in your favorite text editor and edit the file to read as follows.

# Where the zlib library and include files are located ZLIBLIB=/usr/local/lib ZLIBINC=/usr/local/include #ZLIBLIB=./zlib #ZLIBINC=./zlib

Then finish the install.
make sudo make install

Test this by running the following code.
export srcdir=. ./test-pngtest.sh

Next install libjpeg.

cd ./jpeg-6b/ ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 ./configure --enable-shared make sudo make install

Now install freetype2.
cd ./freetype-2.3.5

Open include/freetype/config/ftoption.h in your favorite editor and uncomment line 461 to read as follows.

#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER

Then complete the install.

./configure make sudo make install

Finally install GD.

cd ./gd-2.0.35 ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool ./configure

The report looked like this when I did it.

Support for PNG library: yes Support for JPEG library: yes Support for Freetype 2.x library: yes Support for Fontconfig library: no Support for Xpm library: no Support for pthreads: yes

Then finish the install.

make sudo make install

You can test it with the following code.

./gdtest test/gdtest.png open test/*.jpg

To add support for Fontconfig, run this command. Ios 12 beta profile install.

export GDFONTPATH=$HOME/Library/Fonts:/Library/Fonts:/System/Library/Fonts

To complete the installation, you need to recomple PHP with all the libraries you just installed. Here is how I did it.

./configure --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-gd --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apxs

make sudo make install

Now you should have PHP with GDLIB installed. That’s it. You’re done! Now, on to your next project!

In this post we have gathered 28 free Mac apps for graphic and web designers. Here they are:

GIMP

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
Overview and Download:GIMP Homepage.

Scribus

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Overview:Scribus Homepage.
Download:Scribus Download Page.

JAlbum

JAlbum allows you to create nice-looking photo galleries for the Web. You simply select or drag and drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum, and it creates thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a gallery or as a picture slide show. The galleries are based on various templates, and their appearance can be further customized by advanced users. The application’s additional features include support for IPTC/EXIF data, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, pluggable image filters, and a built-in FTP/SFTP client.
Overview:JAlbum Homepage.
Download:JAlbum Download Page.

Graphic For Mac Shape Library