I'm somewhat fond of using Imager. It supports fewer image formats, but it works well enough.

+1 for Imager - switched to it from ImageMagick around 6 years ago and haven't looked back.

I agree that Imager is great, but as we are listing alternatives here, I'd like to mention Tk::Photo to be a serious contestant when generating images from within a Tk script/application.

# Create an xpm image of this graph
my $img = $w->Photo (-format => "Window", -data => oct ($w->id));
$img->write ("speed.xpm", -format => "xpm");
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++ Good suggestion. The images in the animation on my home node were all made using Tk::Photo.

— Ken

I used GD to create and modify images in Perl. There is also a simplified version of it: GD::Simple

I see also Prima::Image but I never used it nor the parent module Prima (is in the TOTRY list since.. boh?), it is a good collection of modules.

Anyway.. what do you need to do with images? Knowing this aspect can change the answer a lot.

L*

For another alternative, depending on your use case, see Cairo : "Cairo provides Perl bindings for the vector graphics library cairo. It supports multiple output targets, including PNG, PDF and SVG."

(Although personally I would use a Javascript library and create charts and graphs in the browser these days...)

Hope this helps!

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According to the friendly user manual possibly something like this:

«Imager is a module for creating and altering images. It can read and write various image formats, draw primitive shapes like lines,and polygons, blend multiple images together in various ways, scale, crop, render text and more.»

Otherwise there are few other options.

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