[oak perl] Re: Oakland Digest, Vol 2, Issue 18

[Joshua Wait]

Excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing the
code/examples. 

I'm curious about the project where you had 200+
fonts. What did you use this project for? Were you
creating a font book? Were you checking the appearance
of fonts for a print publication or a web publication?

Some of the math for rotation sounds painful. I might
stick to the methods that rotate at set angles for the
first go round.

--JOSHUA

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>    1. Re: Has anyone used GD before? (Craig
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>    3. Re: Has anyone used GD before? (Craig
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> Message: 1
> Date: 29 Aug 2003 11:03:39 -0700
> From: Craig McLaughlin <cpm at bitbucket.com>
> Subject: Re: [oak perl] Has anyone used GD before?
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> 
> Sorry for the current delay after my initial prompt
> response. :)
> 
> I could dredge up some examples this weekend; the
> use of GD is internal
> to projects and not "standalone," but I could make
> up some sample
> scripts.
> 
> My initial driving reason to start using GD was,
> surprisingly enough,
> font-related.  I wanted a quick and easy way to see
> the same text
> represented in a large (200+) number of TrueType
> fonts.  As GD supports
> TTF, it was pretty simple to get it to do the job.
> 
> I haven't done a great deal of work where
> photo-quality was an issue,
> but I have seen GD used for such things (gallery
> comes to mind), and
> have never noticed quality degredation.  YMMV, as
> image quality is a
> subjective thing, I find. :)
> 
> The largest barrier / pitfall I had was in placement
> and alignment of
> objects (text, images, etc) within the image.  For
> text I was very happy
> to find GD::Text::Align.  But other items required
> calculations of
> radians, use of Pi, etc... quite a pain in the head.
> 
> --Craig
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:20, Joshua Wait wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you for your quick response. 
> > 
> > I did find that information. In many ways, it's
> > adequate document for getting the methods I need
> to do
> > the work, but I was looking for more practical
> > examples. 
> > 
> > I would be interested in hearing more about how
> you
> > used GD. Do you have any examples? Did the
> rotation or
> > other modifications degrade the quality of the
> image?
> > Did you experience any barriers or any pitfalls I
> > should watch out for?
> > 
> > --JOSHUA
> > 
> > 
> > --- Craig McLaughlin <cpm at bitbucket.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've used GD to build charts of varying types
> and
> > > some text-based logos,
> > > along with the rotating and scaling functions
> you
> > > mention.
> > > 
> > > Have you checked out the GD docs at
> search.cpan.org?
> > >  Look under
> > > graphics; all the GD modules are listed there.
> > > 
> > > If you don't find what you need, let me know,
> I'll
> > > try to help.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > --Craig
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:41, Joshua Wait wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'm looking to do some basic image
> manipulation
> > > for my
> > > > web site. Rotate, scale, etc. My ISP only
> supports
> > > GD,
> > > > I played around with it a bit, and it looks
> like
> > > GD
> > > > will do the job.
> > > > 
> > > > While I've found tons of documentation on
> > > > Image::Magick, I've found scant documentation
> on
> > > GD
> > > > and not really any examples of "Oh, I used GD
> in
> > > this
> > > > creative manner to accomplish x, y, z!" 
> > > > 
> > > > Any thoughts?
> > > > 
> > > > --JOSHUA
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> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:51:55 -0700
> From: Belden Lyman <blyman at iii.com>
> Subject: Re: [oak perl] Has anyone used GD before?
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> Craig McLaughlin wrote:
> > 
> > My initial driving reason to start using GD was,
> surprisingly enough,
> > font-related.  I wanted a quick and easy way to
> see the same text
> > represented in a large (200+) number of TrueType
> fonts.  As GD supports
> > TTF, it was pretty simple to get it to do the job.
> 
> This sounds like a cool tool. Will you be able to
> share 
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