Printing image from file, but between html

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

Hello my friends,

I need to print out a barcode image, generated with GD::Barcode, but I need to do it at the end of an html screen, and not as an image-only screen like below.


  use GD::Barcode::ITF;
  binmode(STDOUT);
  print "Content-Type: image/png\n\n";
  print GD::Barcode::ITF->new('1234567890')->plot->png;
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Is there any way to do it? Eg: this one, as expected, doesn´t work:


  use GD::Barcode::ITF;
  print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
  print "Hello, this is the text of this screen<p>";
  print GD::Barcode::ITF->new('1234567890')->plot->png;
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I wait for thy help.

Thanks in advance

André

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Re: Printing image from file, but between html by pg (Canon) on Aug 29, 2005 at 22:00 UTC
That obviously will not work, as the image is not of type text/html. Use HTML img tag.	[reply]
Re^2: Printing image from file, but between html by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 29, 2005 at 22:09 UTC
... where the src is either a cgi that prints out the image directly like OP's first code, or is a temp filename (under the web root) of where the file was written out to disk.	[reply]
Re^3: Printing image from file, but between html by Andre_br (Pilgrim) on Aug 29, 2005 at 22:32 UTC
Hey, davidrw, that´s a good idea, thanks. I´ll point the <img src> to a sub of this script with will print out the file. This is great, because I thought I´d have to record this image to disk, what would be way too dirty. Thanks a lot you both André	[reply]
Re^4: Printing image from file, but between html by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 30, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
Re: Printing image from file, but between html by sgifford (Prior) on Aug 30, 2005 at 01:10 UTC
Some browsers support a `data` URL that directly contains the data: `<img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANS UhEUgAAAFwAAAAWCAIAAADCTmwFAAAA3ElEQVR4nO2YwQ3DIAxFfysGKdM wRmfLGJ2GjtJDqhyKAzYBB1K/UxA2Nh/HSNxifAEA4JcAID6/w3/mfnYCI 3KOKH4Ja2GOiVUKgYlCYKIQmCgE7UXp10TV2jMhCif24NfHQZpVypVkYol St2FNr1buK9ZoCUwUgpwoU3fcI4lNUCkKZ/Pj7h4+AHhH1ouByDj1St05U 6IFOcbFoG4bby8pmQ+RceZpRjQlWpBjXAzq9ux6kB6ptOgqvDLGe/moiiK Cs/M6TYu4TutK0UyjGGuC20cf2e+j0AJG4AOYG4/WPzawWgAAAABJRU5Er kJggg==" alt="sparkline" />` [download] See this random page for the code I stole. If this is for an inhouse application where your users will be using Mozilla or Safari, this is a good solution; apparently it doesn't work in IE, though, which is kind ofa downside. :)	[reply] [d/l]