Replacement for GD

GD's OK - but it's a bit long in the tooth and it's
support for  
antialising and postscript style path functions is limited.

Does anyone know what the hot ticket C (or C++) 2d graphics
library  
is? I'm looking for something GPL that I can wrap up in a
GD like  
Perl interface.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> GD's OK - but it's a bit long in the tooth and it's
support for
> antialising and postscript style path functions is
limited.
>
> Does anyone know what the hot ticket C (or C++) 2d
graphics library
> is? I'm looking for something GPL that I can wrap up
in a GD like
> Perl interface.

ImageMagick ?  Even the author of GD expressed mild
disbelief that there
weren't a shedload of IM APIs to make it pretend to be GD,
and save on the
hassle of installing IM, GDv1 and GDv2.

Your choice as to whether it'd be better to wrap the IM
libs themselves,
or something that hooks into the perl IM libraries.


the hatter

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:29:21PM +0100, Andy Armstrong
wrote:

>Does anyone know what the hot ticket C (or C++) 2d
graphics library is? I'm 
>looking for something GPL that I can wrap up in a GD
like Perl interface.

The Imager module's docs seem to imply that it's the Next
Big Thing.

R

On 18/06/2006 at 17:29 +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>GD's OK - but it's a bit long in the tooth and it's
support for antialising
>and postscript style path functions is limited.
>
>Does anyone know what the hot ticket C (or C++) 2d
graphics library is?
>I'm looking for something GPL that I can wrap up in a
GD like Perl interface.

There's Imlib2 - http://freshmea
t.net/projects/imlib2/ - but 
someone's already beaten you to the Perl interface. Not
sure how 
GD-like it is, though.

http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Image-Imlib2/l
ib/Image/Imlib2.pm

-- 
:: paul
:: blue coconut slush

On 19/06/06, Roger Burton West <rogerfiredrake.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:29:21PM +0100, Andy
Armstrong wrote:
>
> The Imager module's docs seem to imply that it's the
Next Big Thing.

I'm using Imager in our production code.  It installs
nicely and works
well, and the author TonyC is pretty responsive on #imager
too..  It
feels slightly slower than ImageMagick, but I've not done
any actual
benchmarking...

osfameron

On 18 Jun 2006, at 23:47, Paul Mison wrote:
>
> There's Imlib2 - http://freshmea
t.net/projects/imlib2/ - but  
> someone's already beaten you to the Perl interface.
Not sure how GD- 
> like it is, though.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Image-Imlib2/l
ib/Image/Imlib2.pm

Ah, cool, thanks.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

On 18 Jun 2006, at 23:25, the hatter wrote:
>> GD's OK - but it's a bit long in the tooth and
it's support for
>> antialising and postscript style path functions is
limited.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the hot ticket C (or C++) 2d
graphics library
>> is? I'm looking for something GPL that I can wrap
up in a GD like
>> Perl interface.
>
> ImageMagick ?  Even the author of GD expressed mild
disbelief that  
> there
> weren't a shedload of IM APIs to make it pretend to be
GD, and save  
> on the
> hassle of installing IM, GDv1 and GDv2.

Quite by chance I discovered AAG this afternoon:
  http://www.antigrain.com/

The rendering is absolutely stunning - but it's not
terribly well  
documented and it's an awkward API to wrap for Perl use.
Once I get  
some more time I think I'll come back and look at
implementing a GD  
emulation wrapper for it.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

On Jun 18, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> GD's OK - but it's a bit long in the tooth and it's
support for  
> antialising and postscript style path functions is
limited.
>
> Does anyone know what the hot ticket C (or C++) 2d
graphics library  
> is? I'm looking for something GPL that I can wrap up
in a GD like  
> Perl interface.

If you like Cairo, Perl bindings for Cairo are planned to
reach 1.0  
in the near future, as they will be a dependency for 
support of new  
versions of gtk+ in Gtk2-Perl.


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