NAME

Color::Swatch::ASE::Reader - Low-Level ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) File decoder

VERSION

version 0.001002

SYNOPSIS

  use Color::Swatch::ASE::Reader;
  my $hash = Color::Swatch::ASE::Reader->read_file(q[./myfile.ase]);
  print Dumper($hash);

  # {
  #   signature => 'ASEF',
  #   version   => [ 1, 0 ],
  #   blocks    => [
  #     { type => 'group_start', group => 13, label => "My Swatch" },
  #     { type => 'color',
  #         group => 1,  label => "Some Shade",
  #         model => 'RGB ', values => [ 0.9, 0.8, 0.7 ], color_type => 2 },
  #     { type => 'group_end' },
  #   ]
  # }

This at present is very low-level simple structure decoding, and is probably not useful to most people.

Its based on the reverse-engineered specification of Adobe™'s "Swatch Exchange" format, which can be found documented many places:

• selpa.net: file formats

• colourlovers.com: ase file maker

• forums.adobe.com: ase file format reverse engineering

METHODS

read_file

  my $hash = CSASE::Reader->read_file("path/to/file.ase");

read_filehandle

  my $hash = CSASE::Reader->read_filehandle($fh);

read_string

  my $hash = CSASE::Reader->read_string($string);

AUTHOR

Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.