I am making a web site which is being hosted by a company which offers me a Unix telnet shell account. I am looking for a way to resize images, superimpose text on the images, and output them to HTML on the fly using Perl.

Image::Magick does both theses things, and the module GD seems like it does too, but GD will distort JPEGS since it outputs 8 bit images I understand.

Are these my only options?

I must admit that I'm feeling daunted by the steps I may have to take to install Image::magick when I don't have the permissions to access anything outside of my shell. Is it even possible for me do do this? Installing the module is one thing, but then the library for perlmagick is quite another I understand?

Any advice out there?

Thanks!

In reply to JPEG resizing and superimposing text over the JPEG in Perl by jeffpflueger

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