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PHP and image quality

Hello group,

I'm assigned a project in PHP which already developed and I must find a solution to solve an issue in it. Long story short, users can choose a logo/sign and customize it. After image or design is submitted people in the back-end having hard time to get all pieces correctly. They use a term as 'titles' which it is not complete when it gets to owners and some fonts or colors get corrupted when it is received.

Is there any new technology that as far as PNG/JPEG and ... which I can look at and find to deliver a correct format of data?

Thanks,
akohan

gr8gonzo

I have a hard time understanding what you are explaining.

Are you saying that a customer provides digital media / resources so that your company can produce a sign or logo for them, but sometimes the people in your company are receiving corrupted files?

If so, where does PHP come into the picture?

Dave Baldwin

PNG and JPEG are mature technologies. You need to look at the code that is combining the images to see why there is a problem.

akohan

ASKER

Hi Gr8gonzo,

OK, the UI gives online users to design or customize an existing template (Flash/ActionScript) ... I noticed I had pointed to AJAX/JavaScript by mistake ... and then user would save and submit it. PHP's role is to convert the design into JPG format.

I don't have access to its source code yet but the way conversion is happening seems buggy and base on what i was told it is an old technology I am wondering if there are new ways of image processing or libraries to improve this procedure.

Thanks.
akohan

Ray Paseur

Please post a link to the URL that demonstrates the issue. I would like to try it to see exactly how it works. Also, please post the PHP code that processes the client request.

akohan

ASKER

I don't have a link yet or access to the code. all I need to know if there is any new concept in this regard. my goal is just to learn and find new developments in image processing using PHP.

thank you.

Dave Baldwin

One of my sites with PHP 4.4 lists the same version of the 'gd' image routines as another site with PHP 5.3 so it doesn't appear that much has changed. But that's not surprising. The last published change to the JPEG standard was 1999. PNG dates from 1996 and was approved as a standard in 2004. We are asking about the code because it is easy to make choices that give undesirable results.

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Ray Paseur

Agree with the other comments. Image processing has been more stable than array processing!

akohan

ASKER

Thanks.

gr8gonzo

Is there a reason you only gave a "B" grade? That tells me you thought the answer was incomplete or wrong somehow...