This is GIFgraph a package to generate GIF charts, using Lincoln Stein's GD.pm. This package is deprecated. I would recommend that you use GD::Graph directly. I also do not recommend the use of GIF images anymore, since Unisys has decided to be childish about their patent on LZW compression. INSTALLATION needed to install (also see TESTED PLATFORMS): perl 5.005 (5.004 might work) GD > 1.18 GD::Graph GDTextUtils (for GD::Graph) Image::Magick, or edit GIFgraph/Convert.pm And Makefile.PL to install: perl Makefile.PL make make install IMPORTANT CHANGE SINCE VERSION 1.10 GIFgraph no longer contains any of the code to generate charts. Instead it has become a wrapper around GD::Graph. The main reason for this is that since version 1.20 GD does not support generation of GIF images directly anymore. Dropping support for GIFgraph alltogether was not really an option, and having a module called GIFgraph that produces PNG was a bit silly. So I decided to create GD::Graph, and recommend the use of that directly, and make GIFgraph a wrapper around that, its only function being to provide a backward compatible interface to GD. GD VERSIONS If you want to use a GD version 1.20 or up, you will need to have something installed that can do an on-the-fly conversion of PNG to GIF. I recommend that you use Image::Magick, since that is what the GIFgraph module has been setup to use. If you don't want to, or can't install Image::Magick, you will have to edit the file GIFgraph/Convert.pm to provide a different sub png2gif. AUTHOR Martien Verbruggen mgjv@comdyn.com.au COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Martien Verbruggen. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.