PostScript::Simple

INTRODUCTION

PostScript::Simple allows you to have a simple method of writing PostScript files from Perl. It has several graphics primitives that allow lines, circles, polygons and boxes to be drawn. Text can be added to the page using standard PostScript fonts.

It is named PostScript::Simple because it is intended to be simple to use to generate PostScript pages from Perl, not because it is a simplified interface for some other module, or can’t do advanced things.

Features include:

Generation of multi-page PostScript files
Generation of single-page EPS files
Creating lines/circles etc.
Rectangles and boxes
Text
Colour
Pre-defined paper sizes
Etc. etc.

The file examples/example.pl provides some bad examples of what this module does.

SOURCE

The module source is now hosted on GitHub; see:

https://github.com/mcnewton/postscript-simple

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL make make test make install

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details, available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people have contributed in different ways to PostScript::Simple. Thanks go to everyone involved! People who have helped include (in no particular order):

Mark Withall, Andreas Riechert, P Kent, Flemming Frandsen, Michael Tomuschat, Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski, Eric Voisard, Martin McCarthy, Eric Wilhelm, Glen Harris, Peter Kuehn, Tomas Karlsson, Satoshi Azuma

I apologise if you should be here and I have missed you, please let me know.

If you have sent me a patch for this module, and had no reply, please re-send it. I’m particularly bad at missing e-mails…