Re^3: Adding text to an image for printing

Hi tel2,

Check out this: http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.56/lib/GD.pm

Using GD one can create empty canvas and then draw what you want and save in many different formats when ready.

Using GD even you can insert a small marker image to a given position into a big picture.

        $myImage = new GD::Image(100,100);
        ... various drawing stuff ...
        $srcImage = new GD::Image(50,50);
        ... more drawing stuff ...
        # copy a 25x25 pixel region from $srcImage to
        # the rectangle starting at (10,10) in $myImage
        $myImage->copy($srcImage,10,10,0,0,25,25);
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Regards

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Re^4: Adding text to an image for printing by tel2 (Pilgrim) on Nov 30, 2014 at 20:35 UTC
Thanks pme, but I'm sorry, I don't see how that addresses the last point I made. Are you still saying I could use GD to do what I want (i.e. create a single file for users to download & print, which could have 10 pages containing 2 images per page), without putting them in a PDF? If so, how (I'm not asking for code now, just process and file formats, i.e. what kind of container can the graphics+text be put in which can contain many pages for printing 2 certificates per page)? Or when you say "different formats", are you including PDF in that list of formats? (I guess multipage TIFF is one option, but I'm not sure I want to go that way, because, for one thing, the users might struggle with it.) Thanks. tel2	[reply]
Re^5: Adding text to an image for printing by pme (Monsignor) on Dec 04, 2014 at 07:24 UTC
Hi tel2, Sorry for not answering soo long. You can do the format conversion with ImagMagick as RonW suggested below. Regards	[reply]