Running ActiveState Perl v5.12.4 with Win7Pro on a Gateway SX-2841 (64-bit). I am trying to understand the Imager package. I started by installing: >ppm install Imager This seems to have worked OK. I have printed and read all of the .doc files. Let me start with the question, "How do I read a PNG iamge?" I started with some code from the tutorial:: 
use Imager;
my $image_source = $ARGV[0];
my $image = Imager->new;
$image->read(file=>$image_source)
  or die "Cannot load $image: ", $image->errstr;

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then, when I try to read the PNG file, I get 
>perl readpng.pl d2020.png
Cannot load Imager=HASH(0x10d970):
  format 'png' not supported -
  formats bmp, ico, pnm, raw, sgi, tga available for reading -
  Can't locate Imager/File/PNG.pm at C:\c\Perl\graphics\boxes.pl line 
+4.

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OK. So maybe I do not have the PNG code? 
use Imager;
printf "%s\n", join " ", Imager->read_types;
printf " %s\n", join " ", keys %Imager::formats;

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This produces two lists: 
sgi bmp ico pnm tga raw
 bmp pnm tga ifs raw w32

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Somewhere, I read a comment that there's a bit of a trick to loading the code for different formats. I said to ask for help. I'm doing that now....

In reply to Using the Imager package by LloydRice

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