Re: Alternative to $image->copy() in GD module

I spent some time looking for a direct answer to your question with no results. However, maybe a slightly different question might yield some result?

You are apparently happy with the functionality of SVG::GD. What is behind this: "I am not able to use this function in the SVG::GD module"? Maybe there is some issue like module installation, etc. that can be addressed? Also, let's say somebody comes up with another program that does the same thing...what's to say that you can or can't use that one either? What is the limiting factor that is driving the original question?

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Re^2: Alternative to $image->copy() in GD module by Ezhil4663 (Novice) on Jul 06, 2016 at 19:06 UTC
SVG::GD doesn't provide a copy method. It overrides some of the GD::Font and GD::Image methods by aliasing GD::Image:: to SVG::GD::Image:: and GD::Font:: to SVG::GD::Font::, but there's no SVG::GD::Image::copy so you get Can't locate object method "copy" via package "SVG::GD::Image". Therefore, I am looking for alternative methods.	[reply]
Re^3: Alternative to $image->copy() in GD module by pryrt (Abbot) on Jul 06, 2016 at 21:44 UTC
I assume that you already evaluated and rejected the similarly-named GD::SVG, which does implement the copy method (but not clone, copyMerged, etc.). (I've never used either, so I don't know the merits of one over the other.) You might want to try to roll your own `sub SVG::GD::Image::copy { ... }`: create the initial image with `SVG::GD::Image::new()`; use Data::Dumper (or similar) to get the details of the SVG::GD::Image object and find all the attributes/data that are important to you, and copy those attributes from the original to the new. I think you can just define it in your own code using the fully-qualified package:: name, but if not, put it in your installed copy of SVG/GD.pm (assuming you have write privileges). Once you've got it working, you can send it to the maint of SVG::GD as a feature request; having written the code already, it's much more likely to make it in. :-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]