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For clarification - quote from the first page out of the FAQ:

Originally Posted by Osbes

Frequently Asked Questions

Question
My Icon (mostly the paperclip) looks like http://dl.dropbox.com/u/246391/Robin_result.png (it is stretched and vertical lines are added), what can i do?

Answer
I assume you use a GD Libary older than 2.0.36.

GD had a problem handling grayscale images with alpha channel correctly, which was fixed with GD 2.0.36 in the year 2007.

The solution is to update the GD-Libary to 2.0.36 (or later) or replace every file which uses "gray+alpha" with an version using "color RGBA".
I would advise to update the GD-Libary, cause there is also a serious security problem, that was fixed by Debian in the year 2009.

For the embed Version of GD within PHP, this issue is fixed since PHP 5.3.0.

I do not understand why you keep refering to the GD Version which was released 2007 as unsupported. I don't understand either why you refer to it as "impossible to get".

As for the "cut off at bottom" bug. I do not know what is the cause of that, but we have seen forums which run GD 2.0.34 which do not have this bug (those can be identified via the "grey-bug" this GD version has, see the quote if this is unclear).


And there are a lot of "as far as i know" "they all seem to" statements in your post which make me wonder why your are posting a bold statement like "this mod will only work on very few websites".