Allow ImageAPI to output images to standard output

I don't understand what this is trying to accomplish. Please provide a more detailed description.

moving

If I got it right you are talking about extending the image api to handle also writing to standard output.

/**
 * GD helper to write an image resource to a destination file.
 */
function image_gd_close($res, $destination, $extension) {

So, a pair of things:
- This is not a bug, but a feature request -the Drupal api function works just as intended but you want it to do something else
- For the patch, you need to fix also the function description and parameters

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Robin Monks
Drupal.org Testing/QA

It seems like it would be easy enough to add a function and some helper functions to the toolkits to make this possible if it's needed. I've attached a patch which should work with the gd toolkit.