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Is there a pure perl module for creating .gif files?

Edited: ~Tue Jan 14 20:26:30 2003 (GMT) by footpad: Retitled (was ".gif images"), per Consideration. Changes propogated throught the thread.

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Re: Creating .gif images with Perl
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jan 14, 2003 at 03:06 UTC
    I don't know of any pure perl modules but an example of creating a gif in perl only is here

    -Waswas
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Re: Creating .gif images with Perl
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Jan 14, 2003 at 03:04 UTC

    Not that I know of. Note, though, that while GD and ImageMagick aren't pure-perl, they're easy to find pre-compiled versions of.

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      Unfortunately our web host doesn't let you execute binarys out of writeable directories. Is there any other way for a Perl program to create an image that's viewable by both Netscape and IE?
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        If your Web host doesn't let you execute binaries from writeable directories, why not remove write permissions from the directory once you have placed the executables there? I don't understand why this would cause any problems. Do you have other problems you haven't mentioned yet?

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        our web host doesn't let you execute binarys out of writeable directories

        What does that have to do with the price of fish?? Don't make the directory writeable then!

        Install your own modules. I suggest GD.

        Read perldoc -q "my own module" for details.

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      How can I build the perl interface to the pre-compiled versions without a c compiler?
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(Don't use) .gif images
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 14, 2003 at 10:03 UTC
    There cannot be, unless it only creates uncompressed GIFs, due to patent and licensing problems. See http://burnallgifs.org/ about the subject. Unfortunately, there is currently no pure Perl module to create PNG files either.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Creating .gif images with Perl
by steves (Curate) on Jan 14, 2003 at 01:56 UTC

    ImageMagick can do almost anything you want with images. There may be something more specific for GIFs I haven't used though.

    You'd want the base ImageMagick library and the PerlMagick language module.

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Re: Creating .gif images with Perl
by Wysardry (Pilgrim) on Jan 14, 2003 at 01:59 UTC

    I haven't used it myself, but GD seems to be popular. I suggest you start looking in this section of CPAN, as there are several .gif creation modules available with different features.

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      GD requires libgd/libgd.a and PerlMagick requires ImageMagic which requires a C compiler I need something that will run purely in Perl code
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