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Also there seems to be a dependency on some external software for the thumbnail images? I don't have a lot of experience with managing images this way, so I don't quite understand what is required here? Is my service provider likely to have these packages installed?
Thanks.
they all utilise either, imagemagik, netpbm or GD/GD2
GD & GD2 should really be installed already by ur host company as part of php, so if in doubt then select GD or GD2. GD2 would be preferred tho..
netpbm requires binaries for ur system, and i'm not sure if there's any complete binaries that work on windows servers, but u say ur production site will be linux based so there shouldn't be a problem using netpbm there, but you will need to copy the binaries to the server..
imagemagic, is a lot more difficult to install and i think requires root access anyway, so i'd forget abt using that.. especially as the other 2 are more than ample for a gallery module..
GD2.0.28 now supports gif creation aswell, so expect to see gallery modules being utilised now to take advantage of that fact, where as before only imagemagic and netpbm catered for gif creation..