Hi all.

This has been a *very* stressful week. So to entertain myself I was thinking about creating a perl program that would enable one to create a banner ( or poster ) based on an image you already had ( or could make ). Here it is: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use GD;

my $order_of_mag;
print "Enter order of magnitude for new picture: ";
chomp( $order_of_mag = <STDIN> );

my $pic = GD::Image->newFromPng( "pc.png" );
my @size = $pic->getBounds();
my @newSize = map( { $_ * $order_of_mag } @size );

my $newPic = new GD::Image ( @newSize );
$newPic->copyResized( $pic, 0, 0, 0, 0, @newSize, @size );

open FH, ">pc2.png" || die "Could not write to file: $!\n";

binmode FH;
print FH $newPic->png();

close FH or die "Could not close file: $!\n"

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If you set the order of magnitude quite high, simply click on the little orange box that appears ( in IE ) then scroll back and forth. Since it writes the new image to a different file, the original won't be disturbed.
Any suggestions on how to improve it are most welcome.

Thanks,
-Katie.

In reply to Resizing an image with perl. by DigitalKitty

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