On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 16:42 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm looking for an approach to put some text string to existing jpeg > > image. Now I can load a photo into Gdk.Pixbuf and I can create > > Pango.Layout for a text string. So I have my image in a Gdk.Pixbuf and > > my text string in a Pango.Layout, how can I put those things together to > > obtain an image with text drawn on it? Any suggestions and sample codes > > are welcome. > > You could use the System.Drawing API as it has this functionality > already. > > If you want to stick to gtk# and Pixbufs, you need to render the pixbuf > into a pixmap which is the only object that you can use to render text > with Pango.
This reminds me, gtk-sharp needs to wrap the pango_cairo_* functions from pango 1.10 as soon as possible so that people don't need to p/invoke when using pango with cairo surfaces (which has big advantages over the pixmap method). --Larry _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list