Kevin Wrote > I am using ColdFusion to write some text on an image and I don't know in > advance what the string is going to be so I can't guess where to start > writing it.> > Is there a way to say write this text around a particular > point? > > I can check from the image how wide it is and work out where the > centre is but I can't see how to either tell the ImageDrawText() function to > center it or work out how wide the text will be once its written.> The only way I know is to set the start point of the text. To do this you would take the TotalImageWidth - TextWidth/2 to find where the start point should be. That would be one way. ~David _________________________________________________________________ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008
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