I have been rewriting a vb6 client/server Image indexing prog and view app for a L.A.M.P. server (M is for M$SQL

).
The images are in TIFF multipage format. I need to grab a page, crop to a region and convert to PNG for browser. PECL phpFreeImage would do this, but it does not have the power that the php GD2 Image class does.
What to do?