PostScript::Simple allows you to have a simple method of writing PostScript files from Perl. It has several graphics primitives that allow lines, circles, polygons and boxes to be drawn. Text can be added to the page using standard PostScript fonts.
Features include:
Generation of multi-page PostScript files
Generation of single-page EPS files
Creating lines/circles etc.
Rectangles and boxes
Text
Colour
Pre-defined paper sizes
Etc. etc.
The file examples/example.pl provides some bad examples of what this module does.
An experimental Subversion repository of PostScript::Simple is now available at http://svn.newtoncomputing.co.uk/pss. Username is "anonymous" with a blank password. The latest version can be checked out with the following command:
svn co http://svn.newtoncomputing.co.uk/pss/trunk simple
This will put the files in a directory named "simple". To take a look at the next generation version of PostScript::Simple, currently in very slow development, try:
svn co http://svn.newtoncomputing.co.uk/pss/branches/nextgen
Which will create the directory "nextgen" for the files to go in.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Matthew C. Newton / Newton Computing
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details, available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people have contributed in different ways to PostScript::Simple. Thanks go to everyone involved! People who have helped include (in no particular order):
Mark Withall, Andreas Riechert, P Kent, Flemming Frandsen, Michael Tomuschat, Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski, Eric Voisard, Martin McCarthy, Eric Wilhelm, Glen Harris, Peter Kuehn, Tomas Karlsson
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