October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
14h 31m
English
The Drupal 8 Image toolkits provide an abstraction layer over the most common operations used for manipulating images. By default, Drupal uses the GD image management library that is included with PHP. However, it also offers the ability to switch to a different library if needed by using the ImageToolkit plugins.

For instance, a contributed module could implement the ImageMagick library for developers who needed support for additional image types such as TIFF, which GD does not support. However, only one library can be used at a time as it needs to be configured site-wide.
Programmatically manipulating images using a toolkit ...
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