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brew install gd v2.3.3_6 GD

C library for creating and manipulating images in multiple formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP).

Why you might care

GD is a foundational graphics library used by many server-side image generation tools and PHP applications. It's lightweight and focused on programmatic image creation rather than interactive editing, making it ideal as a shared library dependency for web frameworks, thumbnail generators, and image processing pipelines.

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