[kw-pm] GD::Text::Arc

[lloyd carr]

The coaster industry will never be the same ;-)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:14:29 -0500 (EST)
> From: Daniel R. Allen <daniel at coder.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Cc: Toronto Perl Mongers <tpm at to.pm.org>
> Subject: [kw-pm] GD::Text::Arc
>
> I just finished version 0.01 of a module which uses GD and GD::Text
> to draw text on a curve.  Not the most common of needs, I guess, since
> nobody had written that before.  But the next time you're designing a
> button or a customized clock in Perl, it might come in handy.
>
> It works with arbitrary GD graphics objects and TrueType fonts, tries to
> provide intelligent defaults, and the output doesn't look so bad.
>
> Sample output is: http://coder.com/daniel/arc-sample.jpg
>
> This was also my first foray into writing tests while I wrote code; that
> was just as useful as everyone says it is, so I think I'm a convert. Of
> course, I'm sure I need way more than 46 tests, but it's an OK first
> draft.
>
> Now that I'm all puffed up with releasing my first CPAN module and stuff,
> I'd love for people to pick it apart and tell me what I did badly. :-)
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~dallen/GD-Text-Arc-0.01/
>
> -Daniel
>
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