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diff --git a/graphics/p5-GD/pkg/DESCR b/graphics/p5-GD/pkg/DESCR index 1fcd3cefc29..a7a2ca2884e 100644 --- a/graphics/p5-GD/pkg/DESCR +++ b/graphics/p5-GD/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ -This is a port of Thomas Boutell's gd graphics library. GD allows -creating color drawings using a large number of graphics primitives, -and emit the drawings as PNG files. +This is an autoloadable interface module for libgd, a popular library +for creating and manipulating PNG files. With this library you can +create PNG images on the fly or modify existing files. Features +include: + +a. lines, polygons, rectangles and arcs, both filled and unfilled +b. flood fills +c. the use of arbitrary images as brushes and as tiled fill patterns +d. line styling (dashed lines and the like) +e. horizontal and vertical text rendering +f. support for transparency and interlacing |