Re: [MacPerl] Graphics generation

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

In message <Pine.GSO.3.93.960603164734.28390B-100000@cass26> you write:
>Where can I learn more about GD.pm?

By downloading it, either with the MacPerl snapshot or from CPAN.

>Will it let me generate publication quality graphics using MacPerl?

Probably not. GD is ideal for generating GIF pictures on the fly, which is
useful in Web contexts.

> On UNIX machines I've been using something pretty wonderful called PGPerl
> which is a perl module that lets you call PGPlot from within Perl. This gives
> beautiful results, but I don't think its been ported to Macs yet.

Porting PGPerl might be easier than porting PGPlot, whatever that is.

Matthias

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