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NAME
       polymer - Image spriting for web applications

SYNOPSIS
       polymer [--no-colour] COMMAND [ARGUMENTS]

DESCRIPTION
       Polymer is a tool for creating sprite images which combine many smaller
       sources into a single larger image. Spriting allows you to reduce the
       number of HTTP requests required to load a web page, and as such can
       result in reduced load times.

       Polymer also creates the necessary CSS to position the sprite within an
       HTML element so that only the desired source appears. Those writing
       their website or application in Ruby can make use of Polymer's Sass
       builder which creates a Sass mixin, further simplifying the use of your
       sprites.

       In order to reduce the amount of data transferred to clients loading
       your pages, Polymer optimises the sprites it generates using PNGOUT,
       OptiPNG, and PNGCrush.

OPTIONS
       --no-colour
	      Disables the use of colour in output. This option is also avail-
	      able as --no-color.

COMMANDS
       polymer init(1) polymer-init.1.html
	      Creates a new Polymer project in the current directory.

       polymer bond(1) polymer-bond.1.html
	      Creates the sprites specified by your .polymer or polymer.rb
	      file, optimises the images, and creates any requested CSS or
	      Sass files.

       polymer optimise(1) polymer-optimise.1.html
	      Given paths to PNG files as arguments, optimises them to reduce
	      the filesize as much as possible without compromising quality.
	      Also available as polymer optimize.

       polymer position(1) polymer-position.1.html
	      Shows the position of a source within a sprite, and provides CSS
	      which you can use in your own stylesheets.

       Detailed documentation for each of Polymer's commands can be viewed
       with the polymer help command. For example, to view the documentation
       for the bond command, run polymer help bond.

SEE ALSO
       polymer(5) (polymer help .polymer) provides a description of the .poly-
       mer configuration file format.



POLYMER 1.0.0.BETA.3		September 2010			    POLYMER(1)