"Eric Adum" on wrote...
| Hi,
|
| I'm wondering if there is any way in PerlMagick to create text colored with
| a gradient.
|
| Using the command-line interface, it is done in the following way (taken
| from the excellent IM Examples page,
| http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/-- I'd love to see PerlMagick
| equivalents added to those examples)
|
| convert -size 480x80 gradient:yellow-green -font Generic.ttf
| -pointsize 70 -tile gradient:blue-red -annotate +10+65 'Gradient Fun'
| funfont_gradients.jpg
|
| However, the annotate method in Perl doesn't take a "tile" parameter, and
| passing a 'gradient:yellow-green' to the "fill" parameter doesn't seem to
| work (and I don't think it should, since my understanding is that gradient:
| is a pre-defined image-handle, and that "fill" takes a color, not an
| image-handle.
|
| Any help would be much appreciated. I've worked around the problem for now
| using something of the form:
| my $blob = `convert ... png:-`; # this causes convert to output to STDOUT,
| which Perl reads in, and yields the equivalent of my $blob =
| $img->ImageToBlob()
|
| ...but ideally I would be able to use the Perl interface exclusively.
|
Read further....
Create a black and white image of the font, and use it to selete from
pre-generated texture images...
Using Masks with Images
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/channels/#masks
There are three sections to this.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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