NAME
    signature-to-image

AUTHOR
    This Perl Module: Jim Turner <http://home.mesh.net/turnerjw/jim>

    Original PHP code: Thomas J Bradley <hey@thomasjbradley.ca>
    <http://thomasjbradley.ca/lab/signature-to-image>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2011 Jim Turner <http://home.mesh.net/turnerjw/jim>. All
    rights reserved.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

    This is a derived work from signature-to-image.php (see below):

    Signature to Image: A supplemental script for Signature Pad that
    generates an image of the signature's JSON output server-side using PHP.

    project ca.thomasjbradley.applications.signaturetoimage

    author Thomas J Bradley <hey@thomasjbradley.ca>

    link http://thomasjbradley.ca/lab/signature-to-image

    link http://github.com/thomasjbradley/signature-to-image

    copyright Copyright MMXI, Thomas J Bradley

    license New BSD License

    version 1.0.1

    Perl version created 2011/12/02 by Jim Turner

SYNOPSIS
    signature-to-image.pl [--multiplier=#(5)] [--penwidth=#(2)]
    [--xmax=#(198)] [--ymax=#(55)] [--pen_color='r,g,b'(20,83,148)]
    [--background_color='r,g,b'(255,255,255)] json-file|-

    -or-

    cat jason-file | signature-to-image.pl [--multiplier=#(5)]
    [--penwidth=#(2)] [--xmax=#(198)] [--ymax=#(55)]
    [--pen_color='r,g,b'(20,83,148)]
    [--background_color='r,g,b'(255,255,255)] - >imagefile.png

    -or-

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    require "signature-to-image.pl"

    my ($img, $err) = &sig2png($json_image [, multiplier => #(5)] [,
    penwidth => #(2)] [, xmax => #(198)] [, ymax => #(55)] [, pen_color =>
    'r,g,b'(20,83,148)] [, background_color => 'r,g,b'(255,255,255)])

    if ($err =~ /success/) {

            print $img;

    } else {

            warn "..Could not create png image from json signature string ($err)!\n";

    }

PREREQUISITES
            GDlib for perl;
            JSON::Parse;

PURPOSE
    Create a Perl version of Thomas Bradley's signature-to-image.php for a
    client.

METHODS
    sig2png ( STR [, options ] )
        Converts a json string to a PNG image and returns an array
        containing the image as a binary string followed by "success" or an
        empty image string followed by an error message.

        Options:

                multiplier => #  - Multiple image size by # pixels (default 5)
                penwidth => #  - Width in pixels of each vector to be drawn (will be multiplied by C<multiplier>) (default 2).
                xmax => #  - maximum width in pixels of the generated image (will be multiplied by C<multiplier>) (default 198).
                ymax => #  - maximum height in pixels of the generated image (will be multiplied by C<multiplier>) (default 55).
                pen_color => "r#,g#,b#"  - RGB values (0-255) for color to draw the signature in (default "20,83,148").
                background_color => "r#,g#,b#"  - RGB values (0-255) for background color (default "255,255,255").

KEYWORDS
    JSON, JSON::Parse, signature-to-image

