NAME

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

DESCRIPTION

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).

ACCESSORS

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

METHODS

new( %args )

Creates a new instance.

read( $file, \%options )

Proxies to the reader's read() method.

write( $file, \%options )

Proxies to the writer's write() method.

PROXIED METHODS

The following methods are proxies to sauce.

author
title
group
has_sauce

AUTHOR

Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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