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Revision history for Perl extension Image::Resize.

0.05    Friday, November 04, 2005
    - Minor changes in test script

0.04    Saturday, October 29, 2005
    - REMOVED: type() method is obsolete
    - FIX: scaling routine is not compatible with Image::Magick::Scale()
    - NEW: new() can now accept GD::Image object

0.03  Friday, August 19, 2005
    - NEW: Image extension is no longer required
    - NEW: type() method is introduced to retrieve suggested extension for image
    - NEW: 24-bit-palette is used by default, which helps achieve photo-quality results.

0.02  Thursday, June 30, 2005
    - width() and height() methods do not rely on these method names of GD anymore,
      instead, they use getBounds() method directly, for compatibility with older versions

Resize.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

    use Image::Resize;
    $image = Image::Resize->new('large.jpg');
    $gd = $image->resize(250, 250);

=head1 ABSTRACT

Resizes images using GD graphics library

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Despite its heavy weight, I've always used L<Image::Magick|Image::Magick> for creating image thumbnails. I know it can be done using lighter-weight L<GD|GD>, I just never liked its syntax. Really, who wants to remember the lengthy arguments list of c...

    $image->copyResampled($sourceImage,$dstX,$dstY,
                        $srcX,$srcY,$destW,$destH,$srcW,$srcH);

when L<Image::Magick|Image::Magick> lets me say:

    $image->Scale(-geometry=>'250x250');

Image::Resize is one of my attempts to make image resizing easier, more intuitive using L<GD|GD>.

=head1 METHODS

=over 4

=item new('path/to/image.jpeg')

Resize.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

    $gd = $image->resize(120, 120);
    printf("Width: %s, Height: %s\n", $gd->width, $height);

=back

=head1 CREDITS

Thanks to Paul Allen <paul.l.allen AT comcast.net> for the C<trueColor(1)> tip. Now Image::Resize should work fine for photographs too.

Thanks to Nicholas Venturella <nick2588 AT gmail.com> for allowing Image::Resize to work with already-opened L<GD::Image|GD> objects and for checking the scaling routine. It's now comparable to L<Image::Magick|Image::Magick>'s C<Scale()>: the resulti...

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<GD>, L<Image::Magick>

=head1 AUTHOR

Sherzod B. Ruzmetov, E<lt>sherzodr@cpan.orgE<gt>
http://author.handalak.com/

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005 by Sherzod B. Ruzmetov