Ernst Bunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to to make imagemagick print texts over images. Currently i am
> developing on windows but production is linux. Questions: do i need
> ghostscript? can i configure imagemagick to use local fonts on windows? how
> about configuration on linux/fontserver?
I would use ttf-fonts, which I think could be put in WEB-INF/config/fonts or
so. Then you can say something like this:
<img src="<mm:image
template="s(600x80!)+f(png)+modulate(200,0)+font(mm:fonts/Arial.ttf)+fill(ff0000)+pointsize(20)+text(20,50,'$_')"
/>" alt="<mm:field name="title" />" />: <mm:field name="description" />
(copied from 'codings' examples).
You could also configure in imagemagic itself where the fonts are, but that
could be a bit tricky. Search for 'mgk' files.
I think on linux you might indeed need ghostscript.
I must warn however that in JDK 1.4 I did not succeed to use other
characters then ASCII. For some completely unclear reason SUN decided that
Runtime.exec should be vere picky on that, and ruins every byte-array that
is not only ascii :-( I think they even argument that you should change the
program which you're calling to make it understand java-escaping or so
(incredible, isn't it).
So, thatworked fine in JDK 1.3, but not any more, and I lost all courage then.
MIchiel
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