Freehand Draw - Preview site

An upcoming release of Font Image Generator will provide a freehand draw tool that can be used to draw or annotate onto images that you generate.

Here is a link to the preview site

To use the feature, generate an image and then click the draw button and draw with mouse or graphics tablet if you have one.

To merge the drawing with the original image, click the "create" button. If you want to apply the drawing under the original image click the "over/under" button just right of the create button to toggle the target of the merge.

It uses a Flash overlay which generates a .SVG vector image which is then composed into the underlying image by ImageMagick.

Release is delayed by a bug in ImageMagick which should be fixed in the next ImageMagick release due soon.

The bug is that ImageMagick fails to recognize unfilled paths and always fills them with black. You will see this on any curved line that you draw. This makes the feature pretty useless in FIG. It works well with straight lines, stipples, etc., however.

In 2009, expect a full suite of vector graphics tools that can be used with FIG generated images.

Please give the alpha site a try and post your comments and observations.