Re: GD::Text Problems

[Beatnik]

You should pass an instance of GD in the constructor.

use GD;
use GD::Text::Align;

my $gd = GD::Image->new(800,600);
# allocate colours, do other things.

my $align = GD::Text::Align->new(
    $gd  #instance of GD::Image
    valign => 'top',
    halign => 'right',
  );
$align->set_font('cetus.ttf', 12);
$align->set_text('some string');
@bb = $align->bounding_box(200, 400, PI/3);
# you can do things based on the bounding box here
$align->draw(200, 400, PI/3);

open(JPEG,">foo.jpg");
binmode(JPEG);
print JPEG $gd->jpeg(75);
close(JPEG);

I personally stick to plain GD or even worse, plain gdlib code ;) </code>

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you very much - I am closer than ever because it actually generates an image .. but a blank one. I'm sure its just a case of needing to specify the foreground color but all I can find in the module documentation is to set the background and fill colors

#!/usr/bin/perl

use GD;
use GD::Text::Align;

my $gd = GD::Image->new(150,150);

   $white = $gd->colorAllocate(255,255,255);

  #  $black = $gd->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
  #  $red   = $gd->colorAllocate(255,0,0);
  #  $blue  = $gd->colorAllocate(0,0,255);

    $gd->transparent($white);

  my $align = GD::Text::Align->new(
      $gd,
      valign => 'top',
      halign => 'right',
    );

$align->set_font('cetus.ttf', 12);
$align->set_text('200 Files');

@bb = $align->bounding_box(100, 100, PI/3);

# you can do things based on the bounding box here

$align->draw(200, 400, PI/3);

open(JPEG,">foo.jpg");
binmode(JPEG);
print JPEG $gd->jpeg(75);
close(JPEG);