What is the easiest or best library for assembling an image from a set of components? In short, I want to write a script that will take in text input and generate an image composed of tiles each corresponding to a letter in the text input. The tiles will each show an illustrated font-like version of the corresponding letter. They will all be the same height, but maybe not the same width. The idea is you put in a name or short phrase and get an image output with a pretty version of the name or phrase. I don't really care what the image format (GIF, JPEG, Other) is, although I'd prefer something web browsers can handle. (I am not asking anyone here to write the code - just to recommend an image library that would make writing the code easy.)

In reply to Image Library Preferences by Anonymous Monk

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