From: Timothy Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2005-06-10T10:25:28+09:00
Subject: Re: text to images using RMagick

Nick Hayworth wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> just wondering if it's possible to convert a string to an image x pixels 
> wide. The text should automatically wrap at x pixels. i can do this using 
> ImageMagick's convert utility :
> 
> convert -size 200x -font Tahoma -pointsize 20 caption:"My very long caption 
> which should wrap at 200 pixels" output.gif
> 
> I looked at the annotate method in RMagick but it looks like I need to 
> specify the image dimensions. Can anyone suggest how I might get the effect 
> I want using RMagick? 
> 
> 

I got this to work but while doing so I discovered that RMagick is 
missing an attribute in the Image::Info class. I'll upload a new version 
tomorrow and post an announcement here.