RE: Image manipulation recommendation?

[Jonathan M. Hollin]

I couldn't get the requisites for the gd.pm and related modules to work on
Windows.  Although these things apparently have worked great for years on
UNIX, they may have problems on Windows 2000 servers.  I had to go to a
purchased Java product that is accessible via a servlet to get graphs
generated.

--

For clarification, and to encourage others to at least try GD and or
Image::Magick under Windoze, BOTH packages work as advertised with that
operating system.  I have both running quite happily on my development
machine (Windows 2000).  I did encounter some problems installing both, but
these disappeared when I used the PPM's (ActiveState / TheoryX5) as opposed
to trying to compile manually.

You must understand that both packages are complex, you need patience and
persistence - but it's worth it in the end.


Jonathan M. Hollin
WYPUG - http://wypug.p.org/

Re: Image manipulation recommendation?

[Ian D. Stewart]

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On Friday 28 June 2002 13:29, Goehring, Chuck Mr., RCI - San Diego wrote:
 Ryan,

 I couldn't get the requisites for the gd.pm and related modules to work on
 Windows.  Although these things apparently have worked great for years on
 UNIX, they may have problems on Windows 2000 servers.  I had to go to a
 purchased Java product that is accessible via a servlet to get graphs
 generated.

Hey Chuck,

Assuming you are running ActivePerl, there is a PPM for GDGraph available 
from the main ActiveState repository 
(http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6).  What sort of dependency issues 
are you running into?


Ian
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Re: Image manipulation recommendation?

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Maybe GD.pm?
 --- Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  
 Hi all,
 
 I hope this isn't too far off topic. I'm working on
 a mod_perl web
 project in which it would be *really* quite handy if
 I could
 dynamically rasterize text over existing images.
 
 What I would ideally like is a pointer to a good
 Perl library that
 will allow me to take an existing image (gif, png,
 or jpg), and fairly
 easily render Type 1 (preferred) or Truetype fonts
 overtop of the
 image, and return the result. Caching the result
 would be a bonus.
 
 For this project, ease of implementation far
 outweighs the need for
 bells and whistles. I'd rather not have to learn a
 complex API just to
 throw some dynamic text on an image. :-)
 
 Thanks,
 - Ryan
 
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Re: Image manipulation recommendation?

[Mark Fowler]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ryan Thompson wrote:

 I'm working on a mod_perl web project in which it would be *really*
 quite handy if I could dynamically rasterize text over existing images.

Apache::ImageMagick ?
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-ImageMagick

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