GD ImageCopyMerge problem

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I am calling a PHP script from perl to manipulate some pictures. I am building an image out of 5 seperate parts.
I am a bit stuck at this point in a script.
At this point the first created picture is returned to my calling script proving the picture is being created.

imagejpeg($newim);

The next part of the code creates the main image and should be at the beginning of the script but I have moved it to here for testing.

I create a new image and fill it with colour so it can be seen.

$framedpic= imagecreate($fullwidth,$fullheight);
$culler = imagecolorallocate ($framedpic,20,20,20);
imagefilledrectangle ( $framedpic, 0, 0, $fullwidth, $fullheight, $culler );

and try to merge the first image into this newly created one here.

ImageCopyMerge ( $framedpic, $newim, 0, 0, 0, 0, 50, 50, 50)
imagejpeg($framedpic);

Nothing is returned.
If I remove the imagecopymerge function, a black box is returned as expected.
What am I missing here?

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

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The docs say that this function was added in PHP 4.0.6.
Does this GD dump say our server is running version 2.0.28?

array(10) { ["GD Version"]=> string(27) "bundled (2.0.28 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(false) ["T1Lib Support"]=> bool(false) ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) }

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk