[magick-users] Fill pattern in rectangle using PerlMagick Draw('primitive' => 'rectangle', ..)

[Ramsden, John]

Hi all,

I've searched everywhere, but with no luck, including archived threads on this list,
and tried various experiements such as:

  $image->Draw('primitive' => 'rectange', 'tile' => 'pattern:checkerboard', etc)

but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get ImageMagick to tile a rectangle
with one of the built-in patterns detailed at:

  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php#builtin-patterns

Seems like all available ImageMagick documentation concentrates on the
"flash" image transformation stuff, and practically ignores the humble "draw"
vector-graphic functionality.

Also, thinking ahead to the happy day I figure out the pattern filling for a rectangle,
my next challenge will be to apply a colour/pattern gradient to the rectangle.

(The app is for preparing bar charts, among other things, and the aim here is to
make each bar appear to stand out of the page like a 3D pillar. So any thoughts
are very welcome; but _please_, no one suggest I use GD::Graph or GnuPlot ;-P)


Cheers

John R Ramsden


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