GD::Text 0.86 review

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 63K Developer: Martien Verbruggen

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GD::Text is a Perl module with text utilities for use with GD.

SYNOPSIS

use GD;
use GD::Text;

my $gd_text = GD::Text->new() or die GD::Text::error();
$gd_text->set_font('funny.ttf', 12) or die $gd_text->error;
$gd_text->set_font(gdTinyFont);
$gd_text->set_font(GD::Font::Tiny);
...
$gd_text->set_text($string);
my ($w, $h) = $gd_text->get('width', 'height');

if ($gd_text->is_ttf)
{
...
}
Or alternatively
my $gd_text = GD::Text->new(
text => 'Some text',
font => 'funny.ttf',
ptsize => 14,
);

This module provides a font-independent way of dealing with text in GD, for use with the GD::Text::* modules and GD::Graph.

Requirements:
Perl