Re^4: GD colorAllocate not changing colour

> Pass a true value for the optional truecolor parameter to the GD constructors..

..or simply force truecolor with the class method

use GD 2.0.33;
GD::Image->trueColor(1);
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Infact:

> For backwards compatibility with scripts previous versions of GD, new images created from scratch (width, height) are palette based by default.

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