I cannot believe that--after weeks of sweat--I came to nearly the same conclusion as a Perl icon.

("Nearly", because without Mr. Schwartz's deep-and-wide experience, I could not recognize that the documentation was "unimpressive." I thought it "sucked.")

I had come to the same conclusion that the PerlMagick module (a depressingly confusing synonym for Image::Magick) is best designed for "trial and error."

Here's the thing: what I have always loved-loved-loved about Perl is that when I know what I want to do, there's Perl, right there with more than one way to do it. I know what I want to do with Image::Magick--and that isn't helping much at all.

I'll ask it in a new ticket, but what I'd like to do is interrogate the Image::Magick module, and whatever is associated with it (however that's done) and ask it to spit out Just What Methods I can use, and Just What Parameters they take.

Thank you Mr. Schwartz. Your comment here gives me new hope that I maybe ain't crazy. (And thanks for the PP book--which I paid retail for, probably back when it cost about-seven-fifty. Sorry I'm late with the thanks, but I had no idea how to get ahold of you.)

In reply to Re^3: Image::Magick by Br'er Rabbit
in thread Image::Magick by roberto

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