Many of the methods in Image::Magick require an argument named "geometry". The docs at http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html are very vague about this. I don't understand what the "geometry" argument is for, and I don't understand what kind of values to assign it. It requires a syntax that I can't grasp. Can someone enlighten me?

Example taken from the documentation:

   $x = $image->Crop(geometry=>'100x100"+100"+100');
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A few methods that require the "geometry" argument, as described in the docs:

+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Method            | Parameters                                           |
+===================+======================================================+
| AdaptiveThreshold | geometry=>geometry, width=>integer, height=>integer, |
|                   | offset=>integer                                      |
+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Blur              | geometry=>geometry, radius=>double, sigma=>double    |
+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Border            | geometry=>geometry, width=>integer, height=>integer, |
|                   | fill=>color name                                     |
+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| ColorFloodfill    | geometry=>geometry, x=>integer, y=>integer,          |
|                   | fill=>color name, bordercolor=>color name,           |
|                   | fuzz=>double                                         |
+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Crop              |geometry=>geometry, width=>integer, height=>integer,  |
|                   |x=>integer, y=>integer                                |
+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Emboss            | geometry=>geometry, radius=>double, sigma=>double    |
+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------+

Some help please?

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Tommy Butler, a.k.a. TOMMY

edited: Sun Jul 20 15:11:05 2003 by jeffa - formatting

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