Loosing quality when using imagecreatefrompng ()

Anon

Hi, I am having a major problem with creating and displaying images on my server! The problem is that when the following code displays the out put of the file, the quality is crap! You may ask why png, well my server's gd lib does not support gif or jpg..

$im = imagecreatefrompng ("/test.png");
ImagePng($im);

The file test.png is good quality and I have view it without the script but when viewing it with this script the quality loss occurs.

I am totally stumped as to what the problem is. I have asked many ppl but no one can help me!

Is there a way to adjust the output quality?
Could it be that the gd lib is the problem?
Or maybe a bug?

to have alook at the sites specs visit:
http://www.gamers-connection.com/phpinfo.php

php version 4.0.0
GD Version 1.6.2 or higher

If anyone has prevous experience please help!

To check out my site please visit http://www.gamers-connection.com/ Its all done with php + mysql. What do you reakon?

Anon

Where do we go to see an example of "before" and "after" you display it?

Anon

Ok here you are

The orignal image:
http://www.gamers-connection.com/admin/new/image3.html

and the image that is using
http://www.gamers-connection.com/admin/new/image2.php

the script used is:
<?
// Load Common File
require "common.php";
require "/validate.php";

$im = imagecreatefrompng("test.png");
ImagePng($im);

any help would be great!

Anon

Looks like the PNG version does not have the same number of colors
that the original image has.

Not sure what to do about it right now.

Anon

I think you are right vincent

I have been reading the gd homepage and at the bottom page of "What's new in version 1.6.2?"

It says "Support for 8-bit palette PNG images has been added"

And i cant see any thing else say 16bit or 32 bit!

Conclusion: I hate my web host an am changing! anyone know of a good one? that supports php 4 and has gd support?