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Is it possible to set a background color attribute when using ImageDrawText?

May 31, 2012 9:55 AM

It's not obvious as to how to set a background color which is by default, black.

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1. Adam Cameron.,

Jun 1, 2012 4:52 AM in reply to CFGadget

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Err... no it ain't. There's no "default" because text written with imageDrawText() doesn't have any background colour. It just writes the text over the top of whatever is there.

Can you provide a repro case that demonstrates what you're seeing. Also attach "before" and "after" examples of images having been processed by your repro case.

Also: what version of CF are you on, what JVM version, and what OS.

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2. fergusondj,

Jun 1, 2012 1:46 PM in reply to CFGadget

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This actually is possible. Here is a link to a blog post I did a while back about creating a pure text image. You can then, in theory, place the result of that image onto a colored box.

http://blog.dkferguson.com/index.cfm/2009/8/25/Creating-text-image-wit h-ColdFusion-8

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3. -==cfSearching==-,

Jun 2, 2012 8:50 PM in reply to CFGadget

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CFGadget wrote:

It's not obvious as to how to set a background color which is by default, black.

Assuming you mean set the background color of a new image, just set the desired canvas color using hex or a named color ie "red", "white", ...

ImageNew([source, width, height, imageType, canvasColor])

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