From simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk Mon Jun 10 04:29:37 2002 From: simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk (Simon Oliver) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:07:08 2004 Subject: [Fwd: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers] Message-ID: <3D047181.7845EA16@umist.ac.uk> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:56:37 -0400 From: Helen Trimes To: Simon Oliver Attention Manchester.pm Members --- Manning Publications announces the release of: Graphics Programming with Perl By Martien Verbruggen To learn more about this book and find out how to get a free copy for your group, please read more ... Greenwich, Connecticut, May 2002 - Graphics Programming with Perl is a guide to the graphics and imaging modules and tools available to the Perl programmer. It covers subjects ranging from drawing pictures and dynamic graphics for web pages to rendering three-dimensional scenes and manipulating individual image pixels. The text is liberally illustrated with example code and programs that show how to achieve common, and sometimes not so common, graphics programming tasks. For the even less common tasks, the book shows developers how to write their own modules. What's Inside - * How to create charts and graphs * Serving graphics content to the WWW with CGI * How to modularize your graphics code, and re-use it * Code to manipulate image pixels (and how to do it fast) * How to work with text in graphics * A complete reference for Image::Magick * Usable examples on adding watermarks to images, creating thumbnails, dynamic web pages with charts, building convolution filters; a web photo album, 3D animation with OpenGL and Renderman About the Author - A developer, architect and systems administrator, Martien Verbruggen is the author of the GD::Graph charting module and the GD::Text modules. He is a regular contributor to the Perl Usenet groups. Martien lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and daughter. About Manning Publications Co. Manning Publications Co. is a respected, growing computer book publisher with a reputation for clear writing and high quality technical content. For each of its books Manning makes available to its readers an online discussion forum where they can pose questions to the author. To get access to the author of Graphics Programming with Perl, go to www.manning.com/verbruggen. Here you will also find the book's table of contents, sample chapters and other contents. This book will be available in retail stores in early June 2002. Manning's User Group Program Manning supports the grassroots efforts of the User Group community. A goal of Manning's User Group Program is to foster relationships with technical communities that--in addition to meeting regularly--troubleshoot, write book reviews, and share knowledge through newsletters or Web sites. Manning will provide a free book for presentation at meetings, for group libraries or for door prizes in exchange for a written published review. If your group is willing to write and publish a review, please contact Helen Trimes at hetr@manning.com. Reviews should be published in print or online within sixty days of receipt of the free book at your group's website, in a newsletter, a newsgroup, at an online bookstore, or at another relevant public forum. When requesting a free review copy, please include your plans for posting the book review as well as your shipping address. Graphics Programming with Perl ISBN 1930110-022 By Martien Verbruggen Softbound, 328 pages, $39.95 Ebook, 2.5 MB pdf, $13.50 Publicity Contact: Helen Trimes hetr@manning.com Manning Publications Co. ~ 209 Bruce Park Avenue ~ Greenwich, CT 06830 -- You are currently subscribed to manchester-pm-list. To unsubscribe, send the following message to majordomo@happyfunball.pm.org: unsubscribe manchester-pm-list From ian.taite at zen.co.uk Tue Jun 11 01:48:20 2002 From: ian.taite at zen.co.uk (Ian Taite) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:07:08 2004 Subject: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers] References: <3D047181.7845EA16@umist.ac.uk> Message-ID: <001001c21113$fab2fc40$0601000a@taitecorp.co.uk> I'd be interested to know how much of this is usable on NT/2K systems; I've got no experience of compiling from scratch under Windows. Ian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Oliver" To: Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:29 AM Subject: [Fwd: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers] > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers > Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:56:37 -0400 > From: Helen Trimes > To: Simon Oliver > > > Attention Manchester.pm Members --- > > Manning Publications announces the release of: > > Graphics Programming with Perl > By Martien Verbruggen > > To learn more about this book and find out how to get a free copy for your > group, please read more ... > > Greenwich, Connecticut, May 2002 - Graphics Programming with Perl is a > guide > to the graphics and imaging modules and tools available to the Perl > programmer. It covers subjects ranging from drawing pictures and dynamic > graphics for web pages to rendering three-dimensional scenes and > manipulating individual image pixels. The text is liberally illustrated > with > example code and programs that show how to achieve common, and sometimes > not > so common, graphics programming tasks. For the even less common tasks, the > book shows developers how to write their own modules. > > What's Inside - > * How to create charts and graphs > * Serving graphics content to the WWW with CGI > * How to modularize your graphics code, and re-use it > * Code to manipulate image pixels (and how to do it fast) > * How to work with text in graphics > * A complete reference for Image::Magick > * Usable examples on adding watermarks to images, creating thumbnails, > dynamic web pages with charts, building convolution filters; a web photo > album, 3D animation with OpenGL and Renderman > > About the Author - > A developer, architect and systems administrator, Martien Verbruggen is > the > author of the GD::Graph charting module and the GD::Text modules. He is a > regular contributor to the Perl Usenet groups. Martien lives in Sydney, > Australia, with his wife and daughter. > > About Manning Publications Co. > Manning Publications Co. is a respected, growing computer book publisher > with a reputation for clear writing and high quality technical content. > For > each of its books Manning makes available to its readers an online > discussion forum where they can pose questions to the author. To get > access > to the author of Graphics Programming with Perl, go to > www.manning.com/verbruggen. Here you will also find the book's table of > contents, sample chapters and other contents. This book will be available > in > retail stores in early June 2002. > > Manning's User Group Program > Manning supports the grassroots efforts of the User Group community. A > goal > of Manning's User Group Program is to foster relationships with technical > communities that--in addition to meeting regularly--troubleshoot, write > book > reviews, and share knowledge through newsletters or Web sites. Manning > will > provide a free book for presentation at meetings, for group libraries or > for > door prizes in exchange for a written published review. > > If your group is willing to write and publish a review, please contact > Helen > Trimes at hetr@manning.com. Reviews should be published in print or online > within sixty days of receipt of the free book at your group's website, in > a > newsletter, a newsgroup, at an online bookstore, or at another relevant > public forum. When requesting a free review copy, please include your > plans > for posting the book review as well as your shipping address. > > Graphics Programming with Perl > ISBN 1930110-022 > By Martien Verbruggen > Softbound, 328 pages, $39.95 > Ebook, 2.5 MB pdf, $13.50 > > Publicity Contact: Helen Trimes hetr@manning.com > > Manning Publications Co. ~ 209 Bruce Park Avenue ~ Greenwich, CT 06830 > -- > You are currently subscribed to manchester-pm-list. To unsubscribe, send the following message to majordomo@happyfunball.pm.org: > unsubscribe manchester-pm-list > -- You are currently subscribed to manchester-pm-list. To unsubscribe, send the following message to majordomo@happyfunball.pm.org: unsubscribe manchester-pm-list From simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 03:08:32 2002 From: simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk (Simon Oliver) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:07:08 2004 Subject: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers] References: <3D047181.7845EA16@umist.ac.uk> <001001c21113$fab2fc40$0601000a@taitecorp.co.uk> Message-ID: <3D05B000.D518D6C1@umist.ac.uk> Ian Taite wrote: > > I'd be interested to know how much of this is usable on NT/2K systems; I've > got no experience of compiling from scratch under Windows. >From the contents page: The tools 29 The Chart::* modules 29 . Gnuplot 29 GD 29 . GD::Graph, GIFgraph and Chart::PNGgraph 30 GD::Text 30 . The Gimp 30 . Image::Magick 30 Image::Size 31 . Inline 31 . OpenGL 32 PGPLOT 32 . RenderMan 33 . Term::Gnuplot 33 Of these I know that the GD::* and Image::Magick modules are available for Win32. I also know that gnuplot, Gimp and pgplot are available for Win32 but I haven't used them from perl. -- Simon Oliver -- You are currently subscribed to manchester-pm-list. To unsubscribe, send the following message to majordomo@happyfunball.pm.org: unsubscribe manchester-pm-list From simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 08:46:33 2002 From: simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk (Simon Oliver) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:07:08 2004 Subject: Perl DBI Seminar Message-ID: <3D05FF39.1E215540@umist.ac.uk> Tim Bunce, the author of the Perl DBI will be speaking at UMIST on the 18th June, 2002 on the subject of the Perl DBI. This seminar will focus on the performance aspects of his popular tutorial, Advanced DBI. It is aimed at Perl programmers with an understanding of the DBI and a desire to know more. For more information and venue directions see: http://pm.bi.umist.ac.uk/dbi_talk.pdf http://pm.bi.umist.ac.uk/activities.html -- Simon Oliver -- You are currently subscribed to manchester-pm-list. To unsubscribe, send the following message to majordomo@happyfunball.pm.org: unsubscribe manchester-pm-list From simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk Tue Jun 18 03:04:16 2002 From: simon.oliver at umist.ac.uk (Simon Oliver) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:07:08 2004 Subject: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers Message-ID: <3D0EE980.786E8DA1@umist.ac.uk> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GDTextUtils 0.83 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:28:08 +1000 From: Martien Verbruggen Reply-To: Martien Verbruggen To: Simon Oliver References: <3D0DA70B.ACD1C7F8@umist.ac.uk> On Mon 17 Jun 10:08 AM, Simon Oliver wrote: > Martien, I advertised your new book "Graphics Programming with Perl" on > the Manchester.PM mailing and received the following question. I replied > to the best of my ability but perhaps you could explain exactly how much > of the book is Win32 usable - which of the modules/tools described in the > book work (and don't work) under Win32? > > -- > Simon Oliver > > Ian Taite wrote: > > > > I'd be interested to know how much of this is usable on NT/2K systems; I've > > got no experience of compiling from scratch under Windows. > > >From the contents page: > > The tools 29 > The Chart::* modules 29 . Gnuplot 29 > GD 29 . GD::Graph, GIFgraph and Chart::PNGgraph 30 > GD::Text 30 . The Gimp 30 . Image::Magick 30 > Image::Size 31 . Inline 31 . OpenGL 32 > PGPLOT 32 . RenderMan 33 . Term::Gnuplot 33 > > Of these I know that the GD::* and Image::Magick modules are available for > Win32. I also know that gnuplot, Gimp and pgplot are available for Win32 > but I haven't used them from perl. Of the tools above, GD, Chart::*, Gnuplot, GD::Graph (and GIFgraph and Chart::PNGgraph), GD::Text, Image::Magick and Image::Size should all be available directly from ActiveState. Image::Magick is also available as a binary download from www.imagemagick.org, and I'd probably recommend using that. In that list, I didn't mention the PDL, but that is also available from ActiveState. The Inline module works on Win32, but does, of course, require a compiler installed. I do not know whether there are precompiled modules for OpenGL, PGPLOT, RenderMan and Term::Gnuplot for Win32. All four require external libraries available, and compilation of C source. Maybe someone has done the work, and compiled it. I just did a search on Google, and after that on aspn.activestate.com, and found that OpenGL is there, and so are PGPLOT and RenderMan and Term::Gnuplot, at least their documentation is. I don't use ActiveState Perl myself, so I don't really know how to find whether those modules are actually there as downloads for Win32 as well. You could have a look around there. Of course, any external libraries needed for these tools will still have to be seperately installed. Regards, Martien -- | Martien Verbruggen | Freudian slip: when you say one thing but Trading Post Australia | mean your mother. | -- You are currently subscribed to manchester-pm-list. To unsubscribe, send the following message to majordomo@happyfunball.pm.org: unsubscribe manchester-pm-list