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.IX Title "Template::Plugin::GD::Text 3pm"
.TH Template::Plugin::GD::Text 3pm "2020-11-29" "perl v5.32.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Template::Plugin::GD::Text \- Text utilities for use with GD
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&    [% USE gd_text = GD.Text %]
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
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\&    [%
\&        USE gd_c = GD.Constants;
\&        USE t = GD.Text;
\&        x = t.set_text(\*(AqSome text\*(Aq);
\&        r = t.get(\*(Aqwidth\*(Aq, \*(Aqheight\*(Aq, \*(Aqchar_up\*(Aq, \*(Aqchar_down\*(Aq);
\&        r.join(":"); "\en";     # returns 54:13:13:0.
\&    \-%]
\&
\&    [%
\&        USE gd_c = GD.Constants;
\&        USE t = GD.Text(text => \*(AqFooBar Banana\*(Aq, font => gd_c.gdGiantFont);
\&        t.get(\*(Aqwidth\*(Aq); "\en";  # returns 117.
\&    \-%]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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The \s-1GD\s0.Text plugin provides an interface to the GD::Text module.
It allows attributes of strings such as width and height in pixels
to be computed.
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See GD::Text for more details. See
Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Align and
Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Wrap for plugins that
allow you to render aligned or wrapped text in \s-1GD\s0 images.
.SH "AUTHOR"
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Thomas Boutell wrote the \s-1GD\s0 graphics library.
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Lincoln D. Stein wrote the Perl \s-1GD\s0 modules that interface to it
and Martien Verbruggen wrote the GD::Text module.
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Craig Barratt <craig@arraycomm.com> wrote the original \s-1GD\s0
plugins for the Template Toolkit (2001).
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Andy Wardley <abw@cpan.org> extracted them from the \s-1TT\s0 core
into a separate distribution for \s-1TT\s0 version 2.15.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright (C) 2001 Craig Barratt <craig@arraycomm.com>,
2006 Andy Wardley <abw@cpan.org>.
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GD::Text is copyright 1999 Martien Verbruggen.
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This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Template::Plugin::GD, Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Wrap, Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Align, \s-1GD\s0