Image::ExifTool::Plot(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Image::ExifTool::Plot(3)

Image::ExifTool::Plot - Plot tag values in SVG format

Output plots in SVG format based on ExifTool tag information.

Create a new Plot object.

$plot = Image::ExifTool::Plot->new;

Change plot settings.

0) Plot object reference

1) Comma-delimited string of options

"Type=Line"           - plot type (Line, Scatter or Histogram)
"Style=Line"          - data style (Line, Marker and/or Fill)
"NBins=20"            - number of bins for histogram plot
"Size=800 600"        - width,height of output image
"Margin=60 15 15 30"  - left,top,right,bottom margins around plot area
"Legend=0 0"          - x,y offset to shift plot legend
"TxtPad=10 10"        - padding between text and x,y scale
"LineSpacing=20"      - spacing between text lines
"Stroke=1"            - plot stroke width and marker-size scaling factor
Title, XLabel, YLabel - plot title and x/y axis labels (no default)
XMin, XMax            - x axis minimum/maximum (autoscaling if not set)
YMin, YMax            - y axis minimum/maximum
Multi                 - flag to draw multiple plots, one for each dataset
Split                 - flag to split strings of numbers into lists
                        (> 1 to split into lists of N items)
"Grid=darkgray"       - grid color
"Text=black"          - color of text and plot border
"Bkg="                - background color (default is transparent)
"Cols=red green blue black orange gray fuchsia brown turquoise gold"
                      - colors for plot data
"Marks=circle square triangle diamond star plus pentagon left down right"
                      - marker-shape names for each dataset

Add points to be plotted.

0) Plot object reference

1) Tag information hash reference from ExifTool

2) List of tag keys to plot

Draw the SVG plot to the specified output file.

0) Plot object reference

1) Output file reference

On return, the Plot Error and Warn members contain error or warning strings if there were any problems. If an Error is set, then the output SVG is invalid.

Copyright 2003-2025, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

https://exiftool.org/plot.html
2025-03-11 perl v5.40.1