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SVG-Sparkline-0.33
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NAME

SVG::Sparkline - Create Sparklines in SVG

VERSION

This document describes SVG::Sparkline version 0.33

SYNOPSIS

  use SVG::Sparkline;

  my $sl1 = SVG::Sparkline->new( Whisker => { values=>\@values, color=>'#eee', height=>12 } );
  print $sl1->to_string();

  my $sl2 = SVG::Sparkline->new( Line => { values=>\@values, color=>'blue', height=>12 } );
  print $sl2->to_string();

  my $sl3 = SVG::Sparkline->new( Area => { values=>\@values, color=>'green', height=>10 } );
  print $sl3->to_string();

  my $sl4 = SVG::Sparkline->new( Bar => { values=>\@values, color=>'#66f', height=>10 } );
  print $sl4->to_string();

  my $sl5 = SVG::Sparkline->new( RangeBar => { values=>\@value_pairs, color=>'#66f', height=>10 } );
  print $sl5->to_string();

DESCRIPTION

In the book Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte describes sparklines as small, high-resolution, graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images.

This module provides a relatively easy interface for creating different kinds of sparklines. This class is not intended to be used to build large, complex graphs (there are other modules much more suited to that job). The focus here is on the kinds of data well-suited to the sparklines concept.

See SVG::Sparkline::Manual for the full usage documentation for the module.

INTERFACE

SVG::Sparkline->new( $type, $args_hr )

Create a new SVG::Sparkline object of the specified type, using the parameters in the $args_hr hash reference.

See SVG::Sparkline::Manual for the details.

get_height

Returns in height in pixels of the completed sparkline.

get_width

Returns in width in pixels of the completed sparkline.

to_string

Convert the SVG::Sparkline object to an XML string. This is the method that is used by the stringification overload.

DIAGNOSTICS

Diagnostic message for the various types are documented in the appropriate SVG::Sparkline::* module.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

SVG::Sparkline requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Carp, SVG.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-svg-sparkline@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This module has been greatly improved by suggestions and corrections supplied but Robert Boone, Debbie Campbell, and Joshua Keroes.

AUTHOR

G. Wade Johnson <wade@anomaly.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009, G. Wade Johnson <wade@anomaly.org>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.8.0. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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