I've had a couple jobs recently that required scripts to automatically manipulate images. I wrote one in PHP, using ImageMagick, and the other was in Perl, also using Image::Magick. I decided I wanted to do some of this sort of stuff on my Mac OS X iBook, but for various reasons wanted to give the GD module a try instead. I set aside an entire afternoon of free time, warned the family to stay clear, and prepared for the coming hours of thrashing in installation hell. Surprisingly, before I could even finish brewing the first cup of coffee, I was done.
