[ILUG] scripting images

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001 - 11:35:34 IST


 What sort of tool is recommended for making up pngs or jpegs of text ?

 Something like "Make an image from 'hello' that's twenty pixels high, and
in a bold courier font". Is it easy ? Can I pass the gimp command line
parameters or some such to do this ?

 Is it possible to do it inside PHP/apache ? I've noticed when building
PHP that it's got functions like;

 http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php

 But I'm not 100% sure on using them in a live website - basically,
generating images on the fly.

Kate

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