Geared toward Perl users and webmasters, Perl Graphics Programming focuses on open-source scripting programs that manipulate graphics files for use on the Web The book demystifies the manipulation of graphics formats for newcomers to the Web with a practical, resource-like approach You'll begin with a tour of the most common web graphic file оевсй formats--PNG, JPEG, GIF, SWF, SVG, Postscript and PDF--then you'll explore the most powerful tools and Perl modules available for manipulating these graphics, such as GD, PerlMagick, and GIMP Included in this part of the book is a thorough description of the Ming module for creating on-the-fly Flash files Next, a "cookbook" section includes practical, all purpose recipes: GIF animation, generating imageswithin a dynamic application, communicating between SWF front-end and Perl back-end, XSLT transformations, compression, and much more Perl Graphics Programming provides all the tools you need to begin programming and designing graphics for the Web immediately.  wwwndruISBN 059600219X.