GD is also quite ubiquitous - certainly for CGI and other dynamic web image creation
http://www.boutell.com/gd/ Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2006 4:11 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Graphics library Scott Ragen wrote: > You don't mention what format the images are in, I'd prefer PNG, but just about anything else would also be ok. > and I am not sure I > understand what you mean, Err, load image, draw text (varying fonts, sizes colours etc) on actual image, save modified image. Basically I want to be able to automate the addition of text to images much like one does in the gimp, but without the requirement of human interaction. Does that make it any clearer? > but would imagemagick ( > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) do what you want? Oh, cool. I wasn't aware that imagemagick also did text. Installing libmagick6-dev now. Thanks. Cheers, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Moore's Law: hardware speed doubles every 18 months Gates' Law: software speed halves every 18 months -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
