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dws (341)
Sunday February 12, 2006
04:56 PM
GIFs or PNGs without pain? Tell me!
Is there portable Perl somewhere for producing GIFs or PNGs?
Every month or so, usually in different environments, I need to produce data-drive graphic for some web app. If I'm lucky (which has been about 25% of the time), GD will be installed. If I'm not lucky (again, about 25% of the time), I either can't acquire admin rights on the box, or can't marshall all of the pieces needed to build GD, and then burn up time doing some kludgey one-off. The in-between 50% just takes time.
This time, I scratched the itch by finding a half a page of pure Ruby for generating PNGs, and did the data analysis and graph production in another two pages of Ruby.
There's gotta be a way to painlessly convert bits to some web-friendly image format in Perl.
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Painful? Not sure... (Score:1)
A search of CPAN got me this:
http://search.cpan.org/~exiftool/Image-ExifTool-5.87/lib/Image/ExifTool/PNG.pm [cpan.org]Re:Painful? Not sure... (Score:2)
Re:Painful? Not sure... (Score:1)
Re:Painful? Not sure... (Score:1)
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