How can I use IO::Scalar with Image::Magick::Read()?

Question

I have an image I have manipulated with GD::Image and I want to do further manipulations with Image::Magick. I\'d like to avoid writing the image out to disk just so Image:

Answer 1

From the docs...

To read an image in the GIF format from a Perl filehandle, use:

$image = Image::Magick->new;
open(IMAGE, 'image.gif');
$image->Read(file=>\*IMAGE);
close(IMAGE);

So... I think a reference to your filehandle (\$FH) in your example, instead of just the filehandle, should do the trick?

Edit: To respond to brian d foy, this is what I was suggesting trying:

my $image = Image::Magick->new;
open my $fh, 'image.gif';
binmode $fh;
$image->Read( file => \$fh );
close $fh;

On my system, at least, this seg faults.

I'll let this post stand as an example of what doesn't work. :P