Giscard Girard wrote:
>
> Hi all, i've been trying to load a jpeg to a servlet, from there draw
> text over it, and then output as a gif.
>
> The only part i'm having trouble with is loading the jpeg to the
> servlet, i tried Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(URL)and
> getImage(). I've had no luck with this.
There's an example very similar to this in "Java Servlet Programming"
Chapter 6. See http://www.servlets.com. The example code is online
for you to peruse.
One warning: JPEG can support 24-bit colors, while GIF can only do
8-bit, so you're likely to make one ugly GIF.
-jh-
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