Curve or circle text

[lavige777]

Hello
I need to draw text on the image in curve or circle. Is it possible to draw text for example around the wheel?
Thanks for any help

[anthony]

Not directly, though it should be posible at some point as drawing text along a 'path' (curved or otherwise) is part of the SVG standard.

In the mean time you can distort a text image....

Vertical Arc (simple)
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/#arch
Circular Arc Distortion...
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distor ... irclar_arc
Polar Distortion...
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distorts/#map_polar

Watch the disjunction or asymptote in the mapping for polar.

I am hoping to create a generalised distort handling function that we
can add distorions to, and as a result will proparly handle the
asymptote in the above.

Affine and perspective maps can be classed as special cases of this
generalised distorter, which I want to be simple enough to add lots
of different distotions (with simple arguments) for people to use.

Ideas welcome.