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[Samy Kamkar]

Is anyone interested in reviewing this book?

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Subject: Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:56:36 -0400
From: Helen Trimes <hetr at manning.com>
To: Samy Kamkar <CommPort5 at LucidX.com>


Attention Los Angeles.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 at 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 at manning.com

Manning Publications Co. ~ 209 Bruce Park Avenue ~ Greenwich, CT 06830





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