Hi All,
  I'm writing some graphics routines that I want to make as universal as possible depending on the machine it's installed upon. In a previous post people pointed me to GD. In some searches on CPAN and google I found out about ImageMagik. I'm curious as to whether there is yet another graphics program that can be used to create images?

I'll be writing my own image module that'll basically check to see if GD or ImageMagik are installed, load the relevant modules and create the required image.

Do you think there would be an interest for this module in CPAN?

Lastly I am dabbling with ASP/PerlScript from ActiveState. My new scripts can run with the extenstions .pl, .cgi or .asp without the need to update code. I was wondering if anyone knows of any image routines that are on Win32 systems by default and can be access when running ASP/PerlScript?

Thanks again!

In reply to GD, ImageMagik, are there others? by cosmicperl

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