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=head1 NAME

Imager::Handy - simple access to common functions

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use Imager ':handy';
  my $color = NC(255, 0, 0);
  my $font = NF(1.0, 0, 0);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

If you use Imager with the C<:handy> import tag, it will export a
number of functions that can shorter your code.

=over

=item NC

=item newcolor

=item newcolour

Create a new Imager::Color object, supplying any parameters to the
new() method.

  my $color = NC('red');

=item NF

=item newfont

Create a new Imager::Font object, supplying any parameters to the
new() method.

  my $font = NF(file => 'foo.ttf');

=item NCF

Create a new L<Imager::Color::Font> object, supplying any parameter to
the new() method.

  my $colorf = NCF(1.0, 0, 0);

=back

=head1 BUGS

NC() can be mostly replaced by supplying the color name or other
description directly to the drawing method.

=head1 AUTHOR

Tony Cook <tony@imager.perl.org>

=cut