gri6507 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Fellow monks,
I am still on my quest to automatically create an image with a semi-transparent background and some text an top (see Another Image::Magick question for original node). All of my attempts to do so using Image::Magick failed. However, GD has prooven more successful (see code below). However, when GD adds text on top of semi-transparent background, the text seems to be "aliased" with other colors (i.e white or black) all around the periphery of the letters. It's as though adding text on top of a background with some non-zero alpha color messes up the background behind the text. Has anyone seen this before? Is there a workaround? Maybe seeing this code would spring some ideas on how to do this with Image::Magick also?
Thanks.
use strict; use GD; my $bg_r = 255; my $bg_g = 255; my $bg_b = 255; my $bg_alpha = 60; #my $border_r = 0; #my $border_g = 0; #my $border_b = 0; #my $border_alpha = 0; my $fn_r = 255; my $fn_g = 0; my $fn_b = 0; my $fn_alpha = 0; my $font = '/usr/share/fonts/bitstream/Vera.ttf'; my $font_size = 8; my $output = 'x.png'; my $fortune = `fortune`; $fortune =~ s/\n/\r\n/g; $fortune =~ s/\t/ /g; my $radius = 10; GD::Image->trueColor(1); # create temp image and colors my $im_tmp = new GD::Image (100,100); my $black = $im_tmp->colorAllocate(0,0,0); # must be there for the im +age background definition my $text_color = $im_tmp->colorAllocate($fn_r, $fn_g, $fn_b); # get dimensions of text my @bounds = GD::Image->stringFT($text_color, $font, $font_size, 0, 0, + 0, $fortune, {linespacing=>1, charmap=>'Unicode', kerning=>0}); # scale the background correctly and define colors for new image my $width = $bounds[2]+2*$radius; my $height = $bounds[1]-$bounds[7]+2*$radius; my $im = new GD::Image ($width, $height); $im->saveAlpha(1); $im->alphaBlending(0); $black = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0); # must be there for the image bac +kground definition $text_color = $im->colorAllocateAlpha($fn_r, $fn_g, $fn_b, $fn_alpha); my $bg_color = $im->colorAllocateAlpha($bg_r, $bg_g, $bg_b, $bg_alpha) +; #my $border_color = $im->colorAllocateAlpha($border_r, $border_g, $bor +der_b, $border_alpha); #$im->setAntiAliasedDontBlend($text_color,0); # draw the border #$im->arc($radius, $radius, $radius*2, $radius*2, 180, 270, $border_co +lor); # uppder left #$im->arc($radius, $height-$radius, $radius*2, $radius*2, 90, 180, $bo +rder_color); # lower left #$im->arc($width-$radius, $radius, $radius*2, $radius*2, 270, 360, $bo +rder_color); # upper right #$im->arc($width-$radius, $height-$radius, $radius*2, $radius*2, 0, 90 +, $border_color); # lower right #$im->line($radius, 0, $width-$radius, 0, $border_color); + # top #$im->line($radius, $height-1, $width-$radius, $height-1, $border_colo +r); # bottom #$im->line(0, $radius, 0, $height-$radius, $border_color); + # left #$im->line($width-1, $radius, $width-1, $height-$radius, $border_color +); # right $im->fill(0,0, $bg_color); # draw the text $im->stringFT($text_color, $font, $font_size, 0, $radius-$bounds[6], $ +radius-$bounds[7], $fortune, {linespacing=>1, charmap=>'Unicode', ker +ning=>0}); # save the image open(OUTFIL,">$output") || die "Can't write to $output: $!\n"; binmode OUTFIL; print OUTFIL $im->png; close(OUTFIL);
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Re: GD semi-transparent background with text
by creamygoodness (Curate) on Oct 18, 2005 at 23:05 UTC | |
by gri6507 (Deacon) on Oct 19, 2005 at 12:53 UTC |