There's also RMagick http://home.nc.rr.com/rmagick/ which can do some drawing as well (some nice examples here: http://home.nc.rr.com/rmagick/portfolio3.html ) . It's based on ImageMagick. Farrel -- Data Network Architecture Research Lab mailto:flifson / cs.uct.ac.za Dept. of Computer Science http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~flifson University of Cape Town +27-21-650-3127