Image::TextMode::Format - A base class for text mode file formats

This is a base class for all textmode formats. It provides the basic structure for reading and writing, plus provides some defaults for common attributes (e.g. font and palette).

* reader - an instance of a file reader

* writer - and instance of a file writer

* font - a font instance

* palette - a palette instance

* sauce - a SAUCE metadata object

* render_options - default options for use when rasterizing the data

Creates a new instance.

Proxies to the reader's read() method.

Proxies to the writer's write() method.

The following methods are proxies to sauce.

* author

* title

* group

* has_sauce

Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>

Copyright 2008-2011 by Brian Cassidy

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.