GD is a powerful but lightweight graphics module, which is a Perl wrapper of libgd. The Perl GD module is available here.
The simplest result from GD is the plain white image...
use GD;
MAIN: {
my $banner;
my $white;
# Create a new image, 400 Pixels (px) wide by 66px tall, using truecolor
# I will need truecolor later in this example.
$banner = GD::Image->new(400, 66, 1);
# Allocate a color to use in the image
$white = $banner->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
# White Background
$banner->fill(1,1,$white);
# Create result 1...
open($fh, '>', "bn_1.png");
print $fh $banner->png();
close($fh);
}
Result 1:
