ImageMagick images

tkPhoto
Magick

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An important part of the design of Portable Presenter is the requirement for screen-size independency; fonts and also images are scaled, dependent on the actual screen-size.

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PPresenter will automatically use Image::Magick when it is installed. There is no performance reason to decide differently.

You can defined Image::Magick images in two ways:

Implicit: use an image in your slide description, for instance with
```
  $show->addSlide(-main => '<IMG SRC=image.xpm>');
```
In this case, you have created a Tk::Photo object via an Image::Magick object, but are not able to control it. Why not directly a Tk::Photo? Because now you can use any image format, and get very nice scaling results for free!
Explicit: define an image and refer to it later. In contrary to Tk::Photo objects, the Image::Magick objects are not window dependent until displayed.

The explicit way is demonstrated on this page. The implicit way is the same for Tk::Photo objects and Image::Magick object, which is described on the main image page.

Magick options

There are no special options for Image::Magick objects: the general options define all.

ImageMagick functions

If you want to create images with ImageMagick, you do not need to read the documentation of PPresenter: they are not connected at all. A small example to demonstrate:

   use PPresenter;
   use Image::Magick;

   my $image = Image::Magick->new;
   $image->Read('image.tiff');
   $image->Scale('25%x50%');
   ...

   my $show = PPresenter->new;
   $show->image($image, -name => 'image');

On the moment you add the image to the show, the Magick structure is taken. You should not try to change the object after this.

$show->image(image, ..., image, options )

Add one or more images to PPresenter. Is equivalent to

map {$show->image($_, options)}
    image, image, ...;

Usually, the dots used to precede a list-item in an unordered list (for instance used by the markup formatter), is defined by the decoration option -nestImages. The dots can be specified as filename or as objects.

   use PPresenter;
   use Image::Magick;

   my $dots = Image::Magick->new;
   $dots->Read('redball.gif', 'blueball.pct');

   my $show = PPresenter->new;
   my @p    = $show->image(@$dots);
   $show->change( decoration  => 'ALL'
                , -nestImages => [ undef, @p ] )

One Image::Magick can contain a list of images.

ImageMagick images

Magick options

ImageMagick functions

Examples

Example 1: Own symbols for unordered lists