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NAME

ThousandWords - convert an image to colored HTML text

SYNOPSIS

        $text = ThousandWords::giveme($image, $filltext);

DESCRIPTION

ThousandWords is a module designed to take a GD image and a string as input and return an HTML formatted and colored text, resembling the image made out of the string, repeated as necessary.

FUNCTIONS

giveme

giveme(IMAGE, STRING)

Returns a HTML formatted string, colored to resemble IMAGE. The string consists of the letters and characters from STRING.

EXAMPLE

        use GD;
        use ThousandWords;

        my $filltext = 'ThisIsALittleTextLittleTextLittleText';

        open(FILE, '< demo.png') || die('horribly');
        my $image = newFromPng GD::Image(FILE) || die('miserably');
        close(FILE) || die('pathetically');

        my $text = ThousandWords::giveme($image, $filltext);

        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n<HTML><BODY>$text</BODY></HTML>\n";

MORE EXAMPLES

        Made with the v. 0.01 (just a script, inspired by http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/)

        http://rto.dk/images/camel.html
        http://rto.dk/images/llama.html
        http://rto.dk/images/henning.html (me)

        Made with the v. 0.03

        http://rto.dk/images/neptune.html
        http://rto.dk/images/mars.html
        http://rto.dk/images/pluto_charon.html
        http://rto.dk/images/earth.html
        http://rto.dk/images/saturn.html
        http://rto.dk/images/jupiter.html (here the reason for v. 0.04 is apparent)
        http://rto.dk/images/ira1.html
        http://rto.dk/images/ira2.html (my colleagues)

KNOWN BUGS

None, from a perl perspective. From an image perspective things look different :-)

AUTHOR ETC.

Henning Michael Møller-Nielsen, hmn@datagraf.dk

1 POD Error

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 133:

Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'Møller-Nielsen,'. Assuming CP1252