I can offer a suggestion about aside, the print statement is being buffered in STDOUT by perl. I think if you put $|++; somewhere near the start of your script, you will disable outbuffering.
$| is documented in perlvar.
Michael,
the blue haired monk.
In reply to Re: Annotate and Image::Magick
by coolmichael
in thread Annotate and Image::Magick
by jeffpflueger
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