man Template::Plugin::GD::Text () - Text utilities for use with GD
NAME
Template::Plugin::GD::Text - Text utilities for use with GD
SYNOPSIS
[% USE gd_text = GD.Text %]
EXAMPLES
[% USE gd_c = GD.Constants; USE t = GD.Text; x = t.set_text('Some text'); r = t.get('width', 'height', 'char_up', 'char_down'); r.join(":"); "\n"; # returns 54:13:13:0. -%]
[% USE gd_c = GD.Constants; USE t = GD.Text(text => 'FooBar Banana', font => gd_c.gdGiantFont); t.get('width'); "\n"; # returns 117. -%]
DESCRIPTION
The GD.Text plugin provides an interface to the GD::Text module. It allows attributes of strings such as width and height in pixels to be computed.
See GD::Text for more details. See Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Align and Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Wrap for plugins that allow you to render aligned or wrapped text in GD images.
AUTHOR
Craig Barratt <craig@arraycomm.com>
The GD::Text module was written by Martien Verbruggen.
VERSION
1.56, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.14, released on 04 October 2004.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Craig Barratt <craig@arraycomm.com>
GD::Text is copyright 1999 Martien Verbruggen.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin, Template::Plugin::GD, Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Wrap, Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Align, GD, GD::Text