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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+ <refentry id="function.imagecolorhistogram">
+  <refnamediv>
+   <refname>imagecolorhistogram</refname>
+   <refpurpose>Create a histogram array for the colors in an image's palette</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+  <refsect1>
+   <title>Description</title>
+    <methodsynopsis>
+     <type>array</type><methodname>imagecolorhistogram</methodname>
+     <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>image</parameter></methodparam>
+    </methodsynopsis>
+   <para>
+    This function will return an array with color index numbers as keys and
+    the number of pixels using that color entry as values for images using
+    a color palette. This function can't operate on truecolor images where
+    it will just return &false; instead of an array.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    See also <function>imagecolorsforindex</function> 
+	and <function>imageistruecolor</function>.
+   </para>
+  </refsect1>
+ </refentry>
+
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