More on Images

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

Hi.

I am using free hosting, and I don't have access to the server to install new modules... Image::Magick is not installed and I can't seem to even install it on my own Win98 box, and I need to be able to open some pictures and output them into a single one thru an <IMG> tag.

and this has to happen online... (I don't have some pictures that I want to join)

So Here's my silly thought;

jpeg

png

Can anyone throw in a quick link??

Thanks

Chady | http://chady.net/

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Re: More on Images by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 18, 2001 at 00:30 UTC
The PNG specification is available at the PNG group homepage. There's another website that has all sorts of binary data specifications, but I can't remember it at the moment.	[reply]
Re: More on Images by eg (Friar) on Feb 18, 2001 at 00:33 UTC
http://www.cica.indiana.edu/graphics/image.formats.html has a lot of image format specs, including png and jpeg. Actually, http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html is even better, so use that instead. Oh, and even though it's not particularly graceful, you can sometimes fake an image merge in html. Just make sure you don't have any whitespace between the <img> elements.	[reply]
Re: Re: More on Images by Chady (Priest) on Feb 18, 2001 at 01:46 UTC
Thanx for the link.. well I was leaving that last option to the end.. Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply]
Re: More on Images by merlyn (Sage) on Feb 18, 2001 at 05:41 UTC
Well, with the right programming, you could use http://www.imagemagick.org/cristy/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi/ as a "remote API", and have your script transform the image by uploading there. {grin} -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: More on Images by archon (Monk) on Feb 18, 2001 at 02:58 UTC
You can use the GD module to manipulate PNG files. I did something similar to what it sounds like you are trying to do at http://forbidden.dough.net/~archon/cgi-bin/pcomb.cgi using GD, although mine manipulates GIFs.	[reply]
Re: More on Images by Fingo (Monk) on Feb 18, 2001 at 00:21 UTC
How wxactky do you have to join them? If it's not using layers but making them next to each other, you could just write a script that oututs the TML to scale the images...	[reply]