Text To Image Tutorial

This tutorial describes how to directly create a PNG image from a text resource.

Step 1

The first and only step is to directly create a PNG image representation from a text resource using the imageText2PNG service.

Code	Result
<instr>   <type>imageText2PNG</type>   <operand>     <text>Text for the Image</text>   </operand>   <operator>     <text2PNG>       <fontface>Serif</fontface>       <fontsize>30</fontsize>       <color>888844</color>       <bgcolor>FFFFFF</bgcolor>     </text2PNG>   </operator>   <target>this:response</target> </instr>

This instruction creates an PNG representation from an XML formatted text resource. In this example the text is statically defined within the DPML program. A more useful vesion would issue a sub-request for a resource that contains the text.

Summary

This illustrates how simple it is to create a PNG representation with the Image resource model.