Monday, January 5, 2009

New FIG text Engine, Stroke Settings, Image Dims.

All FIG images are now created with ImageMagick giving new features and more robust performance, especially with larger font sizes. Previously, text generation was done by PHP/GD.

The new features include stroke color/width and the ability to set an image width independent of the height. Word-wrap also behaves much better with this change. Stroke settings are found on the control panel. To achieve transparent fill with strokeoutline, clear the hex value from the fill color box.

Now, setting the image width by itself controls the point where text wraps to the next line. Image height expands automatically to contain the text that was entered.

Setting both width and height does the same thing except that any text that overflows the dimensions you set will be clipped.

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