Hello! This newbie is trying to use the GD module with an ActiveState Perl installation. I've had good luck with using Tk for making GUIs, and graphs, but Tk isn't so good for PRINTING or SAVING a canvas. So.. I'm trying out GD. But the "hello world" code found on the web doesn't spawn a window, it just dumps junk to the console... Actually no GD example I've found actually displays anything. What am I missing? The code is below. Thanks much!! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use GD;
# create a new image
$image = new GD::Image(100,100);
# allocate some colors
$white = $image->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
$black = $image->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
$red = $image->colorAllocate(255,0,0);
$blue = $image->colorAllocate(0,0,255);
# make the background transparent and interlaced
$image->transparent($white);
$image->interlaced('true');
# Put a black frame around the picture
$image->rectangle(0,0,99,99,$black);
# Draw a blue oval
$image->arc(50,50,95,75,0,360,$blue);
# And fill it with red
$image->fill(50,50,$red);
# make sure we are writing to a binary stream
binmode STDOUT;
# Convert the image to PNG and print it on standard
# output
print $image->png;

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