[Templates] Image plugin (was: Modifying TT functions at run time)

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com> writes:

Mark> Indeed, but it'd be stupidly slow compared to Image::Size.  Image::Size 
Mark> doens't actually load in the image...it just peaks inside the headers of 
Mark> the file and pulls out the info from there.  Unless of course it doesn't 
Mark> understand the image format, in which case *it* uses Image::Magick do the 
Mark> job.

And Image::Magick's "ping" operation also grabs "just enough" of the
image to figure out what it is as well.

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