Support/Comments for gtext

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Use this forum to post any comments about this addition or any questions you have regarding its use.

Brief Description:
Basically you can use any .ttf to create a graphical rendition of your text.

It is 'load-reduced' and you can use it from within other snippets as well.

thank you very much for creating this plugin! i’m a noob, so apologies if the answers should be obvious:

- can the one gtext snippet be used for multiple fonts, or should multiple snippets with different names be used?
- do you have some specific examples of how to use this? my first attempt resulted in an error as i tried to put the following into a document’s content:

the last few words in this sentence should be written [[gtext? &font=’CACPINAF.TTF’ &fontsize=’16’ & color=’#FFFFFF’ &bgcolor=’#000000’ & text=’in a cool font’]].

i replaced arial.ttf with CACPINAF.TTF in the snippet as that’s the font i uploaded into assets/files/fonts.

Try backticks instead of single quotes around the argument’s values.

is this

`

a backtick?

Indeed it is, it shares a key with the tilde ( ~ ). Usually to the left of the 1 key, although on my iBook for some reason that key is § / ±, while the backtick/tilde key is to the left of the z.

i must be doing something silly - i put it into the content of a page (ie not in the template) and what showed up is

/assets/images/gtext_cb61fa08baa0726f734a314c20225319.gif

opening that image revealed it to be the text that was supposed to be displayed. here’s how i’m calling the text:

[[gtext? &font=`BabelSans.ttf` &fontsize=`16` &color=`#aa3e00` &bgcolor=`#dbeaf0` &text=`Graphical Text Test`]]

should that be in the source rather than the content?


thank you.

I think you need to use the snippet as the value for the src attribute of an <img... tag.

ok - i will try that. thank you again!

a couple of questions:

1) right now, i put the code into the source of page content. is that the only way to do it? i tried putting it into the content itself, but it just spat out the code like it was text.
2) i assume having control over kerning is too much to ask for?


thanks.

is it not possible to use 2 instances on one page? i made 2nd graphic text which results in the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class atextimage in /home/gatewayy/public_html/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(705) : eval()’d code on line 78