Auto Generated Text Images

Posted on | October 5, 2008 | No Comments

I find it cumbersome to create label image and upload it manually when updating categories or page titles from CMSes. In most cases, text label images are used instead of plain text mainly due to aesthetic considerations. Some advantages of using text label images:

• text looks better with anti-alias
• fancy fonts can be used for the menus or content

If the CMS can auto generate the label image, I no longer have to manually create images when updating the content

There are different approaches to achieve this. You can do it in Flash with a variable to pass in the text. You can do it with an image manipulation library and scripts. For this post, I will explain how to get it to work with Cakephp and GDLib.
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