Thanks in advance for any wisdom shared.

I need (want) to dynamically create fairly simple tiff images in perl. I need tiffs of a specific demension, containing only text of a specified font (and size) at very specific locations. The images must be 600 DPI, one bit per sample (black text on a white background), with CCITT Group 4 Fax Compression.

I have tried using the Imager package, as it looked to best match my needs, but have not yet been able to get it to output 1 bit per sample, nor Group4 compression. Below is sample code using Imager:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Imager;


my $impact = Imager::Font->new(file => '/home/me/test/IMPACT.ttf');
my $times  = Imager::Font->new(file => '/home/me/test/times.ttf');

my $img = Imager->new(xsize=>5500, ysize=>6600, chanels=>1, class => '
+fax') || warn Imager->errstr;

my $image = $img->to_paletted(colors=>[Imager::Color->new(255,255,255)
+],
                  class => 'fax',
                  make_colors => 'none',
                  translate => 'errdiff',
                  errdiff => 'stucki') || die Imager->errstr;

$image->string(text=>'14', x=>1750, 'y'=>1220, size=>1470, font=>$impa
+ct, color=>'black', aa=>1, align=>0) or warn $image->errstr;

$image->string(text=>'13716', x=>750, 'y'=>3100, size=>1450, font=>$im
+pact, color=>'black', aa=>1, align=>0) or warn $image->errstr;

$image->write(file=>'./foo.tif') or die $image->errstr;

exit;

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In reply to Creating Tiff's from perl by JediWizard

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