pureperl imaging module?

Jaap has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to create a new image with some text in it.

All major Perl imaging modules (GD, Imager and Image::Magick) are dependent on libraries i don't have, or aren't current on the machine i (have to) use.

Is there any pure-perl imaging module? I don't care if it's bmp, gif, jpg, png or whetever.

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Re: pureperl imaging module? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 16, 2004 at 16:20 UTC
Image manipulation involves lots of math, something Perl would do quite slowly. I doubt anyone's taken the time to port an image library to Perl. PDL (Perl Data Language) could be used to do image manipulation efficiently, but you'd have to install that (assuming an image manipulation library was written in PDL). I look forward to the day when PDL is core. ImageMagick, for one, exists both as a Perl library and as standalone executables. If you can't upgrade what you have, but you can install newer versions of these standalones, Perl could execute them.	[reply]

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Re: pureperl imaging module?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 16, 2004 at 16:20 UTC

Image manipulation involves lots of math, something Perl would do quite slowly. I doubt anyone's taken the time to port an image library to Perl. PDL (Perl Data Language) could be used to do image manipulation efficiently, but you'd have to install that (assuming an image manipulation library was written in PDL). I look forward to the day when PDL is core.

ImageMagick, for one, exists both as a Perl library and as standalone executables. If you can't upgrade what you have, but you can install newer versions of these standalones, Perl could execute them.

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