Re: Graphical text via CGI
Re: Graphical text via CGI
- Subject: Re: Graphical text via CGI
- From: Daniel Shockley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:52:05 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:39:47 -0400
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To: email@hidden
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From: John MacDonald <email@hidden>
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Subject: Graphical text via CGI
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I want to render text from a web page into styled graphics and I want
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to do it on demand via CGI.
Use clip2gif, which you can get at
http://homepage.mac.com/piguet/gif.html
Here's some modified sample code from PeachPit Press's book, Applescript for the Internet: Visual
Quickstart guide. (I think it's safe to post a piece of it, since you can download the code from
their website without a password.)
---------- BEGIN SCRIPT -----------
set myFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select folder to save image:")
set useThisText to text returned of display dialog "What should it say?" default answer "Type in
your text here"
tell application "clip2gif"
save {200, 100} in window drawing ,
{{drawn text:useThisText, position:{0, 0, 200, 100}, font:"Helvetica", justification:center,
style:{bold, italic}, size:20, color:{65535, 0, 0}}}
save window 1 as GIF in file (myFolder & "text.gif" as text) scale 50 depth 8 with dithering
without transparency
close window 1
end tell
---------- END OF SCRIPT -----------
You can specify all kinds of properties of the text. clip2gif is pretty amazing, and it's
completely free. Yves Piguet also has a program there called GifBuilder, which lets you create
animated gifs - also using AppleScript. I've read good things about both of them, although I
haven't had much occasion to use them myself - I stopped running my web site on my own Mac back in
1995.
Enjoy!
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