writing text to a bmp

[eitan]

hi guys

anybody know how to write text to a bmp?

what i need is the possibility to automaticaly add text or

a time stamp like those common in webcams.

thanks

[Simucal]

I spent a little time googling around trying to see some vbscript examples of something like what you want. One thing I came up with was using ImageMagick Studio, which is (from what I can tell) a free image manipulation program. You can call upon its exe from an autoit script with the necessary parameters.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

And here are some adding text examples:

http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics...ck6/annotating/

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[eitan]

thanks for the help!

i know image magic and tried it however it does not suit the purpose.

what i need id a small dll or exe that can be called at the command line

and not a whloe software suit that needs installation.

thanks for the effort though

[/dev/null]

i know image magic and tried it however it does not suit the purpose.

what i need id a small dll or exe that can be called at the command line

and not a whloe software suit that needs installation.

well, I guess you don't know too much about ImageMagick.

Just install the static bound version (ImageMagick-6.2.8-5-Q16-windows-static.exe), save mogrify.exe somewhere and then uninstall ImageMagick. mogrify will still work, as any other commandline tool.

mogrify -draw "text 300,300 'Test   1234'" piechart.png

You can also use COM (ObjCreate) to manipulate images. See help file of ImageMagick.

Cheers

Kurt