Fill pattern in rectangle using PerlMagick Draw('primitive' => 'rectangle', ..)

Hi all,

I've searched everywhere, but with no luck, including
archived threads on this list,
and tried various experiements such as:

  $image->Draw('primitive' => 'rectange', 'tile'
=> 'pattern:checkerboard', etc)

but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get
ImageMagick to tile a rectangle
with one of the built-in patterns detailed at:

  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php#buil
tin-patterns

Seems like all available ImageMagick documentation
concentrates on the
"flash" image transformation stuff, and
practically ignores the humble "draw"
vector-graphic functionality.

Also, thinking ahead to the happy day I figure out the
pattern filling for a rectangle,
my next challenge will be to apply a colour/pattern gradient
to the rectangle.

(The app is for preparing bar charts, among other things,
and the aim here is to
make each bar appear to stand out of the page like a 3D
pillar. So any thoughts
are very welcome; but _please_, no one suggest I use
GD::Graph or GnuPlot ;-P)


Cheers

John R Ramsden


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Hi,

> Also, thinking ahead to the happy day I figure out the
pattern filling for
> a rectangle, my next challenge will be to apply a
colour/pattern gradient
> to the rectangle.

Include gradients in IM is in current development.
Are you a volunteer to become a beta-tester to test this
current work in 
progress ?


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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:19:46 +0100, Ramsden, John wrote:

Hi John

> but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get
ImageMagick to
> tile a rectangle with one of the built-in patterns
detailed at:
> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php#buil
tin-patterns

Here's a tested program:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Image::Magick;

# ----------------

my($image)	= Image::Magick -> new(size =>
'200x100');
my($result)	= $image -> Read('pattern:circles');

die $result if $result;

$result = $image -> Write('circles.png');

die $result if $result;

> Seems like all available ImageMagick documentation
concentrates on
> the "flash" image transformation stuff, and
practically ignores the
> humble "draw" vector-graphic functionality.

Free software + free help => You should be grateful .
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Cheers
Ron Savage, ronsavage.net.au on 19/07/2006
http://savage.net.au/
index.html
Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company



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