NAME

Color::Swatch::ASE::Reader - Low-Level ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) File decoder

VERSION

version 0.001004

SYNOPSIS

use Color::Swatch::ASE::Reader;
my $hash = Color::Swatch::ASE::Reader->read_file(q[./myfile.ase]);
print Dumper($hash);

# {
#   signature => 'ASEF',
#   version   => [ 1, 0 ],
#   blocks    => [
#     { type => 'group_start', group => 13, label => "My Swatch" },
#     { type => 'color',
#         group => 1,  label => "Some Shade",
#         model => 'RGB ', values => [ 0.9, 0.8, 0.7 ], color_type => 2 },
#     { type => 'group_end' },
#   ]
# }

This at present is very low-level simple structure decoding, and is probably not useful to most people.

Its based on the reverse-engineered specification of Adobe™'s "Swatch Exchange" format, which can be found documented many places:

• selpa.net: file formats

• colourlovers.com: ase file maker

• forums.adobe.com: ase file format reverse engineering

METHODS

read_file

my $hash = CSASE::Reader->read_file("path/to/file.ase");

read_filehandle

my $hash = CSASE::Reader->read_filehandle($fh);

read_string

my $hash = CSASE::Reader->read_string($string);

AUTHOR

Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.