NAME

Image::Caption - Perl module for captioning RGB data

SYNOPSIS

  use Image::Caption;

  open(RGB, "<image.rgb");
  my $fr = join("", <RGB>);
  close(RGB);

  add_caption($fr, 320, 240,
    -font  => "ncenB24.bdf",
    -scale => 0.34,
    -blur  => 3,
    -pos   => "-10 -10",
    -right,
    -text  => "%a, %d-%b-%Y %l:%M:%S %p %Z",
  );

  open(PPM, ">image.ppm");
  print PPM "P6\n";      # PPM
  print PPM "320 240\n"; # dimensions
  print PPM "255\n";     # colour depth
  print PPM $fr;
  close(PPM);

DESCRIPTION

This module is used to add caption text to raw RGB data such as that found in PPM files or grabbed from a frame grabber card using Video4linux.

This code was written in C by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> as found at http://www.jwz.org/ppmcaption/ and ported to perl (perlxs) by myself.

AUTHOR

Iain Wade, <iwade@optusnet.com.au>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).