creating textbox on top of image

[YOzefff]

Hi,

I have a image and a want to add some text on a specific X,Y location and bounded by a with and height.

I have read

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/#annotating

but can't get it to work ...

HELP?

[Bonzo]

How about posting a copy of what you have tried.

Some examples on my site:
http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick/text.php
http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick/watermark.php

[YOzefff]

well first start was

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$text="Verrrrrrryyyy loong an a lot of text what needs to be boundend by a with and height";

					$command = $image_magick.' -resize 2480x3508 "'.$source_image.'" '.
					' -font "'. $fonts["title"] .'" -pointsize 120 -fill white '.
					' -draw "text 308, 530 \''.$text.'\'"  "'.$target_image.'"';					
					passthru($command);	

but now my text just runs of the image

[anthony]

In stead of specifying a specific point size, let label: or caption:
automatically determine the best size for the text to fit into the area wanted.

See the "Auto-Sized Caption" example in Annotate

[YOzefff]

hmm interresting .. I will try that ...

For now I've used this solution:

created a dummy transparent image with the width and height of the textbox and put de text in it. Then I merged the master image with the dummy image.

thnx

[anakadote]

or now I've used this solution:

created a dummy transparent image with the width and height of the textbox and put de text in it. Then I merged the master image with the dummy image.

Can you please provide some example code of how you did this?

[Bonzo]

Untested code but something like this should work:

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convert -size 200x100 xc:none caption: 'Some text here' text.png
composite -gravity center text.png image.jpg output.jpg

Al on one line may work

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convert -size 200x100 xc:none caption: 'Some text here' miff:- | composite -gravity center - image.jpg output.jpg

This code can be expanded to specify a font coloured backgound or border to the text box etc.

[anthony]

Or even one command!

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convert -size 200x100 xc:none caption: 'Some text here' \
            image.jpg +swap -gravity center - composite output.jpg