This does exactly what I want, except I used the output code from JupiterHost.Net's suggestion, as i wanted to output straight to the browser, not to a file. The only other issue I'd have, is it possible to change the font of "Custom Text" to Tahoma? If so, how do it do it, and do I need any additional files?
Cheers, Dan "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 6/25/2004 6:56 PM, dan wrote: > > > Hi all, again! > > > > I'm attempting to make a web page, where all the buttons are dynamic, where > > dynamic I say there's 1 "template" button image with nothing written on it, > > and I want to put requests into a html page to call a script as an image to > > put text on top of the image, then output as 1 image. Does this make sense > > what I'm try to do? Is this even possible? If so, what's the best way of > > going about it, as I have absolutely no idea where to start on this one. > > I've aquired Apache::ImageMagick, but can't make head nor tail of the > > readme. > > Try the GD module. I think it does what you want. > > (untested) > > use GD; > > my $img = GD::Image->newFromJpeg( $file ); > my $black = $img->colorAllocate( 0, 0, 0 ); > $img->string( gdSmallFont, 10, 10, 'Custom Text', $black ); > > open( FH, '>outfile' ) or die; > binmode( FH ); > print FH $img->png(); > close( FH ); > > __END__ > > Regards, > Randy. > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
