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This is the README for Image::Quantize version 0.00_10.

Image::Quantize is a "module" for the Perl computer programming language, a
library of computer code to install on a computer.  This document contains four
sections:

1. About - what the module does

2. Documentation - how to learn more about the module

3. Installation - how to install this module on a computer

4. Help - what to do if you get stuck

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1. ABOUT

Image::Quantize - quantize image data into 256 or fewer colours

Image::Quantize offers an interface to a library called libimagequant
which reduces the number of colours used by an image to 256 or
less. At the moment it can only be used with PNG images. 

The reduction in the number of colours, also known as "quantization"
or "palettization", reduces the size of the PNG image.

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2. DOCUMENTATION

You can read the documentation for the module online at the following websites:

    * http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Image::Quantize
    * http://metacpan.org/release/Image-Quantize

(These links go to the latest version of the module.)

After installing the module, you can read the documentation on your computer
using

    perldoc Image::Quantize

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3. INSTALLATION

This module requires Perl version 5.8.1 or later.

To install the module from CPAN, use

    cpan Image::Quantize

If you have the App::cpanminus installer, you may prefer

    cpanm Image::Quantize

To install the module from the source file, Image-Quantize-0.00_10.tar.gz,
follow this sequence of commands:

    tar xfz Image-Quantize-0.00_10.tar.gz
    cd Image-Quantize-0.00_10
    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make install

If you want to test the module before installing it, use "make test" after
"make" and before "make install".

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4. HELP

To get help with the module, you can email the author, Ben Bullock, at
<bkb@cpan.org>. If you think there is a problem in the module, you can report a
bug at 

<https://github.com/benkasminbullock/image-quantize/issues>,

or if you want to alter the source code of Image::Quantize, try the public
repository on github at 

<https://github.com/benkasminbullock/image-quantize>. 

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This README was written on Fri Feb 28 09:06:55 2014.

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