Are you using a Windows or *nix box for this application? I ask, because with most BSD and Linux distros, a utility can be installed pretty easily. It's called ImageMagick. I'm not sure if it's capable of doing what you need though. I've only briefly used it with PHP, but I found this:
http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-developers/2002-March/000328.html Unfortunately from the post, it's not clear to me where to obtain this tag. Also, my googling led me to this: http://tutorial296.easycfm.com/ Hopefully that helps - let us know if you find a good way to do this as I'm very interested as well. > Thanks Teddy! > > > > I can use ImageDrawText() to write text on top of the image, but I want to > make the text look engraved. ImageDrawText canât do that as far as I can > tell. The text has to distort the underlying image to make this look > right. You can do things like this in Photoshop, and I was hoping there > would be a way to do it inside of ColdFusion. > > > > Clarke > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Teddy R. Payne > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Engraved Text Effect > > > > Clarke, > Yes, you can do this with cfimage. cfimage uses a Java library, so you > are already using one. ;-) > > The method that I have seen is using imageDrawText() function: > > http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Images_12.html > > Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD > Google Talk - [email protected] > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Clarke Bishop <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have a shopping application where I would like to show the user an image > of a personalized, engraved item. > > I have images of the item without engraving, but I want to simulate an > engraved look with the user's actual personal information. So, each image > will be dynamically generated from information on a form or in the > database. > > Can you do this with <cfimage>? Or, do any of you know of a better way to > make this work like some Java library? > > Thanks for any ideas! > > Clarke > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
