size of graphics files....

[Janek Schleicher]

Bill Parker wrote at Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:39:04 +0200:

Is it possible to easily mimic php's getimagesize function in perl? In
particular, I want to get at an images size in KB and X and Y values.

I fully admit to laziness in having purchased but not yet read Verbruggen's
"Graphics Programming with Perl" but I'm hoping this is such a simple task
that a) I won't need Image::Magick or whatever and b) someone else already
has a code fragment to hand

To get the size of a file in KB, please read
perldoc -f -X

To get its size in pixel width and height, have a look to the CPAN module
Image::Size


Greetings,
Janek

 

[Bill Parker]

Is it possible to easily mimic php's getimagesize function in perl? In
particular, I want to get at an images size in KB and X and Y values.

I fully admit to laziness in having purchased but not yet read Verbruggen's
"Graphics Programming with Perl" but I'm hoping this is such a simple task
that a) I won't need Image::Magick or whatever and b) someone else already
has a code fragment to hand

Thanks for any help and pointers etc.

Bill

 

[Bart Lateur]

The book advises one to use Image::Size for this, and I fully
subscribe to that view

Me too.

Yet I'd like to point out that there is also an other module available,
with overlapping use: Image::Info. Current URL:

<http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/Image-Info-1.12/>