Transforming Text to Image!!

nofernandes has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks!!

I was wondering if in Perl exists a Module to transform text to an image on the fly!!

The idea is to upload text to a server and automatically transform this text to an image in a format like jpeg, or png or gif!!

Is perl the best language to do this!!!??

Does someone has an idea of how to do this!!

Thank you...

Nuno

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(jeffa) Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by jeffa (Bishop) on Jul 22, 2003 at 17:43 UTC
This is trivial with the GD module. From the docs: `my $im = GD::Image->new(100,100); $im->string(gdSmallFont,2,10,"Peachy Keen",$color); binmode STDOUT; print $im->png;` [download] Look in the docs for the 'Character and String Drawing' section for more. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by naChoZ (Curate) on Jul 22, 2003 at 17:43 UTC
Image::Magick can do it. Search for 'text' in the documentation. ~~ naChoZ	[reply]
Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by dga (Hermit) on Jul 22, 2003 at 17:44 UTC
You might want to look into Image::Magick which is on CPAN under Perl-Magick. This assumes that you want to make a graphical image out of some text string that is sent in. I would recommend png for the file format to best preserve the look of the text in the least proprietary way. A graphic file of a sentance will be orders of magnitude larger to store than the sentance. GD might also do this sort of thing.	[reply]
Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by glwtta (Hermit) on Jul 23, 2003 at 01:34 UTC
small suggestion? `s/([!?])+$/$1/;` :)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by YAFZ (Pilgrim) on Jul 23, 2003 at 13:03 UTC
Here is one good article: Manipulating Images From The Command Line about ImageMagick. Hope this helps. And yes, Perl is the best language to do this. How could it be otherwise? ;-)	[reply]
Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by nofernandes (Beadle) on Jul 22, 2003 at 17:56 UTC
Thank you very much!! You´ve been very helpfull!! I´m gonna investigate!! Nuno	[reply]
Re: Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by jmanning2k (Pilgrim) on Jul 22, 2003 at 20:05 UTC
I always smile when I see your postings. You're just so.... enthusiastic. ;-)	[reply]
Re: Transforming Text to Image!! by monkey_boy (Priest) on Jul 23, 2003 at 15:46 UTC
If your on a linux style system, the prog. text2gif offers an extremly simple (but also limmited) solution.	[reply]