Err, this doesn't actually work! For those of us forced to labour under a Microsoft cloud, you can't just print binary files out without turning binmode on. Thus you need to change the print statement at the end to: 
  open IMAGE, ">" . $name . ".png";
  binmode IMAGE;
  print IMAGE $im->png();
  close IMAGE;

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You have also loaded CGI but then gone on to print out your own HTML. It seems a bit much having a dog, and barking yourself, if you ask me.

Also sin of sins, you are writing to the file system, with a user supplied filename and not doing any taint checking. I know you said this was a "simple utility", but you should not allow anyone to write to your filesystem, without being sure that they are writing what and where you want to allow them. See perlsec.

I think merlyn wrote a pixel factory on his column, which is similar in idea.

Your script is however, minor defects aside, quite useful.

In reply to Re: Easy Pixel PNG Generator by ajt
in thread Easy Pixel PNG Generator by bladx

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