Need a text to image function
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| Edit: never mind, I've figured out a much easier compromise! I've been beating my head against this problem for weeks now, figured it was time to see if anybody else has an idea. I don't care if this is done in Monkey,Xcode,VisualC,Cocos, whatever...it's a standalone tool to build the data files for my game, not part of the game itself. - Function takes "text" and "filename" as parameters - Creates a new text object with a given font and size containing "text". It's automatically sized to be just large enough to hold "text" in that font, but no larger. - Retrieves the canvas of that object and saves it to disk as a transparent PNG file ("filename".PNG) Before anybody says "use bitmap fonts", here's why that won't work: some of the words I need to convert to graphics are in languages like Arabic which have very complex rendering rules, not straightforward letter->glyph substitution. Up to now I've been doing a variation of this, 100 words at a time, using a graphics program (and my game then uses DrawImageRect to pull out just the word it needs). This works, but there are literally thousands of words I need to convert ... Not impossible, but highly tedious. So if anybody can see a way to do this, please let me know! |
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| Hi Lindsay, Not sure if this could help, but I've been using the GD Library with PHP lately, perhaps you could see if that is a possible solution, perhaps call PHP via CLI to create the required PNG? [Edit]: Hmm... just looked into it abit more, have you looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pango http://cairographics.org/ |
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| I think 297chrisc's Truetype font module would help you do this. |
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| Thanks guys - overnight I've realised that if I drop support for the two most problematic languages, every other language I want to support will work with a bitmap font, so I'm going to do that as it's a heck of a lot less work! |
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