Generate Image Text (memegenerator)

[noobman]

As a fun little project, I thought I would try to create a mini-site (offline) that mimics the functionality of MemeGenerator.

What I want to do is create some stock images with blank space, and allow users to use a web form to add overlay text. When they hit submit, the text gets added to the image and a new file is generated for the user to save.

I can build all of the functionality for the front end, and handle saving files with a new name based on the text given... but I can't figure out what they're using to add text into the image.


Any ideas? I thought the .NET platform might have what I needed to do this, but at a glance I couldn't find anything useful.

 

[Whatsisname]

imagemagick

 

[ameoba]

Imagemagick was my first though but I'm not sure if the library ties in with .NET, since it's a pretty *nix centric tool. I'd be surprised if there's not some equivalent (if inferior) functionality in the dotNET platform.

 

[Whatsisname]

there are .net wrappers for imagemagick, and even if there weren't you can still open pipes to other programs on windows.

 

[BDV]

Ummm.

1. Take your Bitmap
2. Create a new graphics object
3. Draw your text on top of the said graphics object
4. There you have a sub-scripted Bitmap

No need for fancy shmancy libraries...


C# reference: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Using_Bitmaps_for_Persistent_Graphics_in_C_Sharp