comp.lang.ruby

Kaspar Schiess

10/7/2004 8:32:00 PM

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Florian Weber wrote:
| does anybody of you know of a lib which generates a gif or a png
| out of a dynamic text and lets me specify font and font size for it?
| it shouldnt be very complicated with rmagick, but i just dont wanna
| reinvent the wheel...

Do use RMagick ! (excerpt from text.rb in examples:)

~ #!c:/unix/ruby/bin/ruby -w

~ require 'RMagick'

~ imgl = Magick::ImageList.new
~ imgl.new_image(190,190)

~ sample = Magick::Draw.new
~ sample.stroke('transparent')
~ sample.font_family('times')
~ sample.pointsize(24)

~ sample.font_style(Magick::NormalStyle)
~ sample.text(20,40, 'NormalStyle')

~ # (...)

~ sample.draw(imgl)

~ imgl.write('text.gif')

best regards,

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kaspar

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