This is a 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:

* lines, polygons, rectangles and arcs, both filled and unfilled
* flood fills
* the use of arbitrary images as brushes and as tiled fill patterns
* line styling (dashed lines and the like)
* horizontal and vertical text rendering
* support for transparency and interlacing
* support for truetype font rendering, via libfreetype.
* support for spline curves, via gd::polyline
* support for symbolic font names, such as "helvetica:italic"
* support for symbolic color names, such as "green", via gd::simple
* produces output in png, gif, jpeg and xbm format
* produces output in svg format via gd::svg.
included with the example code is the perl script qd.pl with quickdraw routines for generating pict2 files (used on apple macintosh).