Hi, Larry Gritz:

Thank you so much for your help. I successfully ran the code on Linux and
got what I want. The only problem is when running on Windows, the output is
all black without any text. I guess it is due to the OpenImageIO binary
library I used. So I was wondering if you could please take a look at it.

The OpenImageIO binary library I am using on Windows is downloaded from here
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__jesnault.fr_website_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_OIIO-2Dinstall-2Dmsvc11-2Dx64.7z&d=DwIFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=yN_mtgnvh2k3WD8QIZam9tbZUPHJMoZc_18KfiSrxx0&m=XXy2-fXn17psA3p18bZUaPjQ7xX0HVz9zDgc_F0CCMc&s=r264H7-f1kWULEwvRNvCF4iCm2Eh1ZJ7YPjKzpDPYwU&e=
 >
in this webpage
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__jesnault.fr_website_how-2Dto-2Dbuild-2Dwindows-2Dimages-2Dlibraries_&d=DwIFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=yN_mtgnvh2k3WD8QIZam9tbZUPHJMoZc_18KfiSrxx0&m=XXy2-fXn17psA3p18bZUaPjQ7xX0HVz9zDgc_F0CCMc&s=iCu1OtJNTi82EdHi_1lId-kdQIogtxzTKSULtDtvcWE&e=
 >. I can
correctly link it in Visual Studio 2015 but when running the statement
ImageOutput::create("file_name.exr");, the program crashes with the
following error message:

​
I have no idea how to fix this problem. I guess the binary library files I
downloaded have some problem because the above webpage says it is compiled
for Visual Studio 2012 but I am using Visual Studio 2015. The instructions
of building OpenImageIO from source are either not working (
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_site_openimageio_building-2Doiio-2Don-2Dwindows&d=DwIFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=yN_mtgnvh2k3WD8QIZam9tbZUPHJMoZc_18KfiSrxx0&m=XXy2-fXn17psA3p18bZUaPjQ7xX0HVz9zDgc_F0CCMc&s=uGh1rGb2DG9tLqQL8XydSsDTeGr7qzVikvQ68t2rVgs&e=
 ) or
looks too daunting for me (
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__jesnault.fr_website_how-2Dto-2Dbuild-2Dwindows-2Dimages-2Dlibraries_-3Flang-3Den&d=DwIFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=yN_mtgnvh2k3WD8QIZam9tbZUPHJMoZc_18KfiSrxx0&m=XXy2-fXn17psA3p18bZUaPjQ7xX0HVz9zDgc_F0CCMc&s=ajCPIbmNvOONZsMUliOCqyoFoIENFiUtf8oWDDveVlY&e=
 ),
so what I'd like to ask is: if you (or anyone else) happen to have a
compiled binary library of OpenImageIO for Windows 7 64-bit, could you
please share that with me? Thanks a lot!

Thank you again for teaching me how to render text.

Best Regards
Heng Zhou

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2017, at 4:40 AM, Heng Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the interesting post. I happen to be working on a project in
> which I need to composite a text onto a background image. But both the text
> and background image are generated by C++ code, so I hope I can write a few
> lines of code to do the same job as what oiiotool does in your post. I have
> no idea how. Could you (or any other nice people) please share a C++
> snippet with me? I don't need a shadowed text; just displaying it on the
> image I generated would suffice. Thanks a lot!
>
>
>
> Sure!
>
> I'm just doing this off the top of my head, so please double check against
> the docs, but this should point you there.
>
>     #include <OpenImageIO/imagebuf.h>
>     #include <OpenImageIO/imagebufalgo.h>
>     using namespace OIIO;
>     ...
>
> To load a background image:
>
>     ImageBuf bg ("background.tif");
>
> Or to *wrap* an existing buffer (the ImageBuf won't allocate or own the
> pixel memory):
>
>     unsigned char image[xres*yres*channels];
>     ImageSpec spec (xres, yres, channels, TypeDesc::UINT8);
>     ImageBuf bg (spec, image);
>
> Alternately, to *copy* from an existing buffer (with the ImageBuf
> allocating and managing its own pixel memory):
>
>     ImageBuf bg (spec);
>     bg.set_pixels (ROI(0,xres,0,yres,0,1,0,channels), TypeDesc::UINT8,
> image);
>
> To add text to your buffer:
>
>     float textcolor[3] = { 1, 1, 1 }; // MUST be at least as long as the
> number of channels!
>     ImageBufAlgo::render_text (bg, 50 /* x */, 100 /* y */,
>                                "Hello, world!" /* text to draw */,
>                                32 /* font size */, "" /* font name, empty
> for default */,
>                                textcolor);
>
> And then to save the image to disk:
>
>     bg.set_write_format (TypeDesc::UINT8);
>     bg.write ("output.tif");
>
> Or, if you had "wrapped" an image, the text will already be in your
> original buffer.
>
> Or, if you *copied* the image, you can copy out again like this:
>
>     bg.get_pixels (ROI(0,xres,0,yres,0,1,0,channels), TypeDesc::UINT8,
> image);
>
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Let's see if this comes through the mail list with images intact. If not,
>> I'll make it into a wiki page or something.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Let's say you have a text image, white on black, and you want to
>> composite it over an existing background image. Let's quickly generate one
>> to have it as an example:
>>
>>     $ oiiotool -create 128x96 3 -text:x=20:y=50:size=32:color=1,0,0
>> "Hello" -d uint8 -o text.tif
>>
>> <text.png>
>>
>> And let's make an RGBA file for our background using something from our
>> testsuite:
>>
>>     $ cp tahoe-tiny.tif ./bg.tif
>>
>> <bg.png>
>>
>> Now, we could naively composite it:
>>
>>     $ oiiotool text.tif bg.tif --over -o comp.tif
>>     *oiiotool ERROR: over : images must have alpha channels*
>>
>> Oops. Well, adding alpha to the background would be easy,
>>
>>     oiiotool ... bg.tif -ch R,G,B,A=1.0 ...
>>
>> But what about the foreground?
>>
>> Well, if we really were just using oiiotool to make the text in the first
>> place, we could have given it an alpha channel:
>>
>>     $ oiiotool -create *128x96 4 *-text:x=20:y=50:size=32*:color=1,0,0,1*
>> "Hello" -d uint8 -o textrgba.tif
>>
>> But let's suppose for a minute that we didn't have that luxury, we have
>> an RGBA image of text and that's that. We can construct an alpha channel
>> from the luminance, then thresholding it, like this, step by step (first,
>> an invalid command line that explains, then a fully valid command line):
>>
>>     oiiotool text.tif             # read input
>>              --dup                # duplicate it on the stack
>>              --chsum:weight=.2126,.7152,.0722   # compute luminance as
>> single channel
>>              --mulc 20            # multiply it...
>>              --clamp:min=0:max=1  # ...and clamp to threshold
>>              --chappend           # mash the original RGB with the
>> luminance-computed alpha
>>              --chnames R,G,B,A    # make sure that new channel has the
>> right name
>>              bg.tif               # read the background
>>              --ch R,G,B,A=1.0     # add an alpha channel to the backgound
>> (opaque)
>>              --over               # composite
>>              -o comp1.tif         # output
>>
>>     $ oiiotool text.tif --dup --chsum:weight=.2126,.7152,.0722 --mulc 20
>>  --clamp:min=0:max=1 --chappend -chnames R,G,B,A bg.tif -ch
>> R,G,B,A=1.0 --over -o comp1.tif
>>
>> The purpose of the --mulc and --clamp is so that a dimmer text color
>> (less than luminance 1.0) won't make a semi-transparent alpha and show the
>> background color through the text.
>>
>> <comp1.png>
>>
>> This is fairly nice, but a little naive about the text readability. What
>> we really want is a bit of a blurred drop shadow, black rim around the
>> letters, for better visibility against light backgrounds. So let's add a
>> blur to the alpha we are generating, thus making the alpha image extend
>> past the edges of the letters themselves to suppress part of the background:
>>
>>     $ oiiotool text.tif --dup --chsum:weight=.2126,.7152,.0722 *--blur
>> 5x5 *--mulc 20 --clamp:min=0:max=1 --chappend -chnames R,G,B,A bg.tif
>> -ch R,G,B,A=1.0 --over -o comp2.tif
>>
>> <comp2.png>
>>
>> Voilà! Much nicer!  Adjust the blur size and mulc threshold to suit your
>> taste.
>>
>>
>>
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>> [email protected]
>>
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