RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect
Are you using a Windows or *nix box for this application? I ask, because with most BSD and Linux distros, a utility can be installed pretty easily. It's called ImageMagick. I'm not sure if it's capable of doing what you need though. I've only briefly used it with PHP, but I found this: http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-developers/2002-March/000328.html Unfortunately from the post, it's not clear to me where to obtain this tag. Also, my googling led me to this: http://tutorial296.easycfm.com/ Hopefully that helps - let us know if you find a good way to do this as I'm very interested as well. > Thanks Teddy! > > > > I can use ImageDrawText() to write text on top of the image, but I want to > make the text look engraved. ImageDrawText canât do that as far as I can > tell. The text has to distort the underlying image to make this look > right. You can do things like this in Photoshop, and I was hoping there > would be a way to do it inside of ColdFusion. > > > >Clarke > > > > From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Teddy R. Payne > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:09 PM > To: discussion@acfug.org > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect > > > > Clarke, > Yes, you can do this with cfimage. cfimage uses a Java library, so you > are already using one. ;-) > > The method that I have seen is using imageDrawText() function: > > http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Images_12.html > > Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD > Google Talk - teddyrpa...@gmail.com > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Clarke Bishop > wrote: > > I have a shopping application where I would like to show the user an image > of a personalized, engraved item. > > I have images of the item without engraving, but I want to simulate an > engraved look with the user's actual personal information. So, each image > will be dynamically generated from information on a form or in the > database. > > Can you do this with ? Or, do any of you know of a better way to > make this work like some Java library? > > Thanks for any ideas! > > Clarke > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > - > > > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > > - > > > - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect
So you'll need to look closely at the distortion that photoshop is doing to re-create the effect. It be take several steps like an inner bevel then a shadow, etc. But this should be possible. John ma...@fusionlink.com Clarke Bishop wrote: Thanks Teddy! I can use ImageDrawText() to write text on top of the image, but I want to make the text look engraved. ImageDrawText can’t do that as far as I can tell. The text has to distort the underlying image to make this look right. You can do things like this in Photoshop, and I was hoping there would be a way to do it inside of ColdFusion. Clarke *From:* ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] *On Behalf Of *Teddy R. Payne *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:09 PM *To:* discussion@acfug.org *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect Clarke, Yes, you can do this with cfimage. cfimage uses a Java library, so you are already using one. ;-) The method that I have seen is using imageDrawText() function: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Images_12.html Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD Google Talk - teddyrpa...@gmail.com <mailto:teddyrpa...@gmail.com> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Clarke Bishop mailto:cbis...@resultantsys.com>> wrote: I have a shopping application where I would like to show the user an image of a personalized, engraved item. I have images of the item without engraving, but I want to simulate an engraved look with the user's actual personal information. So, each image will be dynamically generated from information on a form or in the database. Can you do this with ? Or, do any of you know of a better way to make this work like some Java library? Thanks for any ideas! Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> - - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect
Thanks Teddy! I can use ImageDrawText() to write text on top of the image, but I want to make the text look engraved. ImageDrawText can’t do that as far as I can tell. The text has to distort the underlying image to make this look right. You can do things like this in Photoshop, and I was hoping there would be a way to do it inside of ColdFusion. Clarke From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Teddy R. Payne Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:09 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect Clarke, Yes, you can do this with cfimage. cfimage uses a Java library, so you are already using one. ;-) The method that I have seen is using imageDrawText() function: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Images_12.html Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD Google Talk - teddyrpa...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: I have a shopping application where I would like to show the user an image of a personalized, engraved item. I have images of the item without engraving, but I want to simulate an engraved look with the user's actual personal information. So, each image will be dynamically generated from information on a form or in the database. Can you do this with ? Or, do any of you know of a better way to make this work like some Java library? Thanks for any ideas! Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect
Clarke, Yes, you can do this with cfimage. cfimage uses a Java library, so you are already using one. ;-) The method that I have seen is using imageDrawText() function: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Images_12.html Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD Google Talk - teddyrpa...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: > I have a shopping application where I would like to show the user an image > of a personalized, engraved item. > > I have images of the item without engraving, but I want to simulate an > engraved look with the user's actual personal information. So, each image > will be dynamically generated from information on a form or in the > database. > > Can you do this with ? Or, do any of you know of a better way to > make this work like some Java library? > > Thanks for any ideas! > > Clarke > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > - > > > >
