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Perl Graphics Programming Images, Graphs, Animations, and PDFs from Perl O'Reilly
by Shawn Wallace
Modern applications use graphics, charts, animations, and structured documents to deliver information and entertain. Perl Graphics Programming is a comprehensive guide to creating and manipulating images and structured documents with Perl, allowing you to add graphs, Flash animations, PDF reports, and more to your programs.
Written for every Perl programmer, Perl Graphics Programming shows you how to create and touch up GIF and JPEG images, from basic line drawings through to automating Photoshop-style manipulation with the Gimp. After a comprehensive guide to creating different types of charts and graphs with Perl, this book covers the Flash and SVG file formats and using Perl to create dazzling animations and games for the browser. Finally, it shows how to create PostScript and PDF files for forms and reports
Perl Graphics Programming covers:
* Drawing PNG, GIF, and JPEG images
* Converting between image formats
* Scaling, shearing, color balancing, and other transformations and touch-ups
* Creating eight different types of charts and graphs, including bar graphs and pie charts
* Scripting the Gimp image editor with Perl
* The SVG and SWF (Flash) file formats
* Creating SVG animation and scripting using XSLT
* Building Flash animations
* Creating PDF and PostScript documents from Perl
The toolkits covered include GD, ImageMagick, GD::Graph. Gimp-Perl, Ming, PostScript and PDF::API2.
Documents, images, and animations can be part of any Perl programmers repertoire. Perl Graphics Programming assumes no prior knowledge of image formats or graphics design terminology, and only a fundamental knowledge of Perl.
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