SVG.pm version 0.50
12 October 2001
SVG.pm is a perl extention to generate stand-alone or inline SVG (scaleable vector graphics) images using the W3C SVG xml recommendation.
Refer to the pod for full documentation and an example script, or to http://roasp.com/SVG.html .
The pod resides in SVG::manual
(c) 2001 Ronan Oger, RO IT Systems, GmbH ronan@roasp.com
This software is provided as is and without warranty.
It is freely distributed under the general perl license.
CONTENTS
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OVERVIEW
DOCUMENTATION
POD in HTML format
Tutorials
INSTALLATION
*NIX AND WIN32 SYSTEMS WITH MAKE OR EQUIVALENT
WIN32 SYSTEMS WITHOUT MAKE OR EQUIVALENT
EXAMPLES
KNOWN BUGS
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OVERVIEW
SVG.pm makes it possible to generate fully-functional SVG images in perl.
100% of the SVG tags are supported.
DOCUMENTATION
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The following documentation is available:
POD in HTML format
Version 1.10 POD 17 October, 2001
http://roasp.com/SVG.html
http://roasp.com/tutorial/
http://test.hackmare.com/tutorial/
INSTALLATION
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The easiest way to do this if your systems supports it is to use the perl CPAN module:
Installation Without using the perl CPAN module
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First download the tar file
Make sure you have the latest version by going to
ftp://test.hackmare.com/pub/Current
ftp://roasp.com/pub/Current
UNIX, LINUX, BSD, OSX and WINDOWS with tar, a make program, and a c compiler
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on the command line, type:
tar -xvfz SVG-0.20.tar.gz
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
WIN32 SYSTEMS WITHOUT nmake
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win32 note: There is no ppm yet for this module.
You need to either install it using nmake or you have to install to a local dirctory and explicitly call the module by using one of the following line in your calling program:
#using use lib
use lib 'path/where/the/release/is/located';
-or-
#using BEGIN block
BEGIN {
push @INC 'path/to/svg.pm/file'; #where the SVG.pm file lives
push @INC 'path/to/svg.pm/file/SVG'; # where the Utils.pm file lives
}
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EXAMPLES
The following files are supplied as example scripts:
examples/svgtest2.pl
examples/SVG_02_sample.pl
examples/image_sample.pl
examples/inline_sample.pl
examples/yaph5.cgi
examples/starpath.cgi
examples/svg.pl
examples/sun_text_sample.pl
examples/svg.pl
examples/inlinesvg.pl
These files are installed where the SVG directory lives in the perl installation.
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KNOWN BUGS
07.10.01
When generating a path element by directly inputing the string data
the path definition (d=>'M 1 1 L 2 2...'), rather than the hash output of the
get_path method, the string must contain no new-line characters.
09.10.01 Does not support the path element d definition 'A' or 'a'
SUPPORT
More information is available from
http://roasp.com
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