From: "Jonathan Métillon" <jmetillon@...>
Date: 2008-06-19T09:08:05+09:00
Subject: Ruby/GD2: generate image that strictly fits a text

Hi!

I'm trying to use GD2::Image and GD2::Font::TrueType to get an image to
fit a text string. I use the bounding_rectangle() method to extract the
bounding box (bbox).

My issue is that the image never really fits the text. It adds some
margins. Maybe I don't resize the image correctly according to the bbox
data? Here's my code:

text  = 'some text'
image = Image.import('white.png') #this is 1x1 white image
image.draw do |pen|
  pen.font  = Font::TrueType['Arial_Bold.ttf', 10]
  pen.color = image.palette.resolve Color[0, 0, 0]
  bbox   = pen.font.bounding_rectangle(text)
  width  = bbox[:lower_right][0].abs + bbox[:upper_left][0].abs
  height = bbox[:lower_right][1].abs + bbox[:upper_left][1].abs
  image.resize! width, height
  pen.move 0, bbox[:upper_right][1].abs
  pen.text text
end
image.export('new-image.png')

Is there something I can do so the image strictly fits the text, with no
margin?

Thank you!
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