1 Copyright 2000-2002,2007 Anthony Cook. All rights reserved.
2 This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or
3 modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
9 Imager::Graph is intended to produce good looking graphs with a
10 minimum effort on the part of the user. Hopefully I've managed that.
12 Currently only the pie graph class, Imager::Graph::Pie, is provided.
18 For best results you will need one or more attractive fonts, and one
19 of the outline font libraries that Imager supports. The ImUgly font
20 is supplied with Imager::Graph, but it is fairly ugly, so probably
21 isn't useful if you want nice output.
27 Imager::Graph follows the normal perl module installation process:
34 Please Note: don't be too suprised if you get test failures,
35 unfortunately minor changes in the image can result in large changes
36 in the measure I use to check the results. If you get test failures
37 please check the results in testout/
39 The tests require PNG file format and TrueType font format support.
44 The aim is to make things as simple as possible, if you have some data
45 you can create a pie chart with:
47 use Imager::Graph::Pie;
49 my $font = Imager::Font->new(file=>$fontfile)
50 or die "Cannot create font: ",Imager->errstr;
51 my $pie_graph = Imager::Graph::Pie->new();
52 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data);
54 If you want to add a legend, you need to provide some descriptive text
57 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, labels=>\@labels, font=>$font,
60 You might want to add a title instead:
62 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, font=>$font, title=>'MyGraph');
64 or instead of a legend, use callouts to annotate each segment:
66 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, labels=>\@labels,
67 features=>'allcallouts', font=>$font);
69 (The following graphs use features introduce after Imager 0.38.)
71 If you want draw a monochrome pie graph, using hatched fills, specify
74 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, style=>'mono');
76 The 'mono' style produces a 1 channel image by default, so if you want
77 to add some color you need to reset the number of channels, for
78 example, you could change the drawing color to red:
80 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, style=>'mono',
81 fg=>'FF0000', channels=>3);
84 If you're feeling particularly adventurous, you could create a graph
85 with a transparent background, suitable for compositing onto another
88 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, style=>'mono',
89 bg=>'00000000', channels=>4);
91 If you only want the background of the graph to be transparent, while leaving other parts of the chart opaque, use the back option:
93 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, style=>'mono',
94 back=>'00000000', channels=>4);
96 or you could make the background an image based fill:
98 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, style=>'mono', channels=>4,
99 back=>{ image=>$otherimage } );
101 If you want a "prettier" image, you could use one of the fountain fill
104 my $img = $pie_graph->draw(data=>\@data, style=>'fount_lin');
106 The image you receive from Imager::Graph is a normal Imager image,
107 typically an 8-bit/sample direct color image, though options to extend
108 that may be introduced in the future.
114 Imager::Graph should work on any system that Imager works on.
120 If you have queries about Imager::Graph, please email me at
121 tony@develop-help.com.
123 A PPM compatible version of this module should be available from
124 http://ppd.develop-help.com/.
126 Thanks go to Addi for Imager.