Image manipulation without GD?

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Re: Image manipulation without GD? by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Feb 14, 2003 at 01:29 UTC
Image::Magick is a possible alternative. It would be useful to know why GD.pm refuses to install. For instance, if it refuses to install because you're missing libpng, you're probably SOL until you install libpng. Does it have to be PNG? PNG is a nasty format to work with -- thank goodness they have a nice reference library for us to use. If you use 32-bit TGAs, you can avoid all this library nonsense and munge pixels by hand, the ~~hard~~ fun way. :-) Targa's a really nice format for image manipulation. Have a look at it on Wotsit. `-- F o x t r o t U n i f o r m Found a typo in this node? /msg me The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!`	[reply]
Re: Image manipulation without GD? by batkins (Chaplain) on Feb 14, 2003 at 01:09 UTC
Imager is nice. Check it out on CPAN.	[reply]
Re: Image manipulation without GD? by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 14, 2003 at 08:07 UTC
Imager is powerful and fast and doesn't use external programs. Juerd - http://juerd.nl/ - spamcollector_perlmonks@juerd.nl (do not use).	[reply]
Re: Re: Image manipulation without GD? by theguvnor (Chaplain) on Feb 14, 2003 at 21:51 UTC
I'd like to try Imager. Is there a repository to which I can point ActivePerl's PPM to get a .ppd package? If not, is there at least a tarball or zip of all the module files (since it appears to be a pure-perl collection of modules)? Update: please disregard this post. I found the tarball in CPAN. [Jon]	[reply]