From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2013-01-16T06:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: gem suggestions for text to bitmap


On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:13 , Wayne Brisette <wbrisett@att.net> wrote:

> There are several gems that look I might be able to use, but I'm wondering if 
> people have any suggestions. I'm looking for a gem that will take a text string 
> and convert it to a GIF/PNG/JPG. That's all I need, nothing fancy. Any 
> suggestions on gems that you may have used. 

You don't care about font, font-size, kerning, line spacing, or anything else "fancy"... right?

Since that's all true, my png gem has png/font that extends the Canvas with #annotate.

Otherwise, you probably want something fancy.