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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use GD;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use File::Basename;
+
+
+my $css_file = 'generated.css';
+my $image_file = 'generated.png';
+my $class_for_map = 'icon';
+
+GetOptions(
+ 'css-out=s' => \$css_file,
+ 'image-out=s' => \$image_file,
+ 'icon-class=s' => \$class_for_map,
+);
+
+my @files = @ARGV;
+my @gd_images;
+
+GD::Image->trueColor(1);
+
+# read files
+
+for my $filename (@files) {
+ my $image = GD::Image->newFromPng($filename);
+ if (!defined $image) {
+ warn "warning: could not load image '$filename'. skpping...";
+ next;
+ }
+ push @gd_images, {
+ gd => $image,
+ filename => $filename,
+ };
+}
+
+# make target layout
+# for simplification thi will check if all the images have the same dimensions
+# and croak if not
+my $first_height = $gd_images[0]->{gd}->height;
+my $first_width = $gd_images[0]->{gd}->width;
+
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+for my $img (@gd_images) {
+ die 'heights are not equal' if $first_height != $img->{gd}->height;
+ die 'widths are not equal' if $first_width != $img->{gd}->width;
+}
+
+# all equal? nice.
+# we'll be lazy and just put them all together left-to-right
+my $new_height = $first_height;
+my $new_width = $first_width * @gd_images;
+
+my $new_image = GD::Image->new($new_width, $new_height, 1);
+# now copy them all together, and keep a referende to;
+
+$new_image->saveAlpha(1);
+$new_image->alphaBlending(0);
+
+my $h_offset = 0;
+for (@gd_images) {
+ $_->{h_offset} = $h_offset;
+ $_->{v_offset} = 0;
+ $new_image->copy($_->{gd}, $_->{h_offset}, $_->{v_offset}, 0, 0, $_->{gd}->width, $_->{gd}->height);
+} continue {
+ $h_offset += $_->{gd}->width;
+}
+
+# now write that png...
+{
+ open my $file, '>:raw', $image_file or die "can't write to $image_file";
+ print $file $new_image->png;
+}
+
+# make css file
+{
+ open my $file, ">", $css_file or die "can't write too $css_file";
+ print $file ".$class_for_map { background: url(../$image_file) ${first_width}px 0px no-repeat; padding: 0; width: ${first_width}px; height: ${first_height}px; }\n";
+
+ for (@gd_images) {
+ my $name = fileparse($_->{filename}, ".png");
+ $name =~ s/ /-/g;
+ print $file ".$class_for_map.$name { background-position: -$_->{h_offset}px 0px; }\n";
+ }
+}
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+=encoding utf-8
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+image_maps - generates image maps for css sprites from images in a directory
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ scripts/image_maps.pl \
+ --out-css=css/icons_16.css \
+ --out-image= image/maps/icons_16.png \
+ image/icons/16x16/*
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+=head1 OPTIONS
+
+=head1 BUGS
+
+None yet. :)
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Sven Schoeling E<lt>s.schoeling@linet-services.deE<gt>
+
+=cut
+
+