I’m unable to get this working! PHP 5.3.2 with ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 and imagick 2.3.0 (and I’ve even tried 3.0.0 RC1 with no luck).

Basically, the patterns are not working. Both PHP’s example and this exact example (which is similar to the one on php.net) result in a white image (with the nice black border, of course).

Could it be my version of ImageMagick is too new? I see some ‘deprecated’ warnings when building imagick against it.

Thanks!

/* Create a new imagick object */
$im = new Imagick(‘iceformations5679.JPG’);

/* Create imagickdraw object */
$draw = new ImagickDraw();

/* Start a new pattern called “ice” */
$draw->pushPattern(‘ice’, 0, 0, 50, 50);

/* Composite the image on the pattern */
$draw->composite(Imagick::COMPOSITE_OVER, 0, 0, 50, 50, $im);

/* Close the pattern */
$draw->popPattern();

/* Use the pattern called “ice” as the fill */
$draw->setFillPatternURL(‘#ice’);

/* Set font size to 52 */
$draw->setFontSize(52);

/* Annotate some text */
$draw->annotation(5, 50, $text);

/* get the metrics */
$dimension = $im->queryFontMetrics($draw, $text);

/* Create a new canvas and white image */
$canvas = new Imagick();
$canvas->newImage($dimension['textWidth'], $dimension['textHeight'], “white”);

/* Add black border around the resulting image */
$canvas->borderImage(‘black’, 1, 1);

/* Draw the ImagickDraw on to the canvas */
$canvas->drawImage($draw);

/* Set the format to PNG */
$canvas->setImageFormat(‘png’);

/* Output the image */
header(“Content-Type: image/png”);
echo $canvas;
exit;

But the exclamation point gets cut off because it’s not wide enough and the box is a bit tall as well.

-Bryan

You can use http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagick-queryfontmetrics.php to get query information about the text.

In your example, instead of hard coding the text, I have it as a variable that the user can enter in manually.

/* Annotate some text */
$draw->annotation(5, 50, $text);

Imagick() objects have the function getImageHeight and getImageWidth to know the dimensions, but ImagickDraw objects do not. So how can I get the proper size of the $text in the $draw object to use for the newImage call for the Imagick canvas?

-Bryan

Also a lot of usefull samples

One thing missing is how to create dynamic text, without the need to know the image size. Is that even possible ?

Got a sample code for the dos convert method, that goes like this:

convert -background none -fill DodgerBlue -stroke black -font Candice -pointsize $pointsize label:”Hello World” -trim +repage ( +clone -alpha extract -blur 0×8 -shade 110×30 -normalize -function polynomial 3.5,-5.05,2.05,0.3 -alpha On ) -compose HardLight -composite aqua_text.png

This produces an image of any size depending on the text passed to it, might as well had been something else, and image would just resize to fit the text.

Any possibilities that you could translate this ?, or point me to somewhere i could read up on it.

Anyway, thanks for the guides, and the dll’s.