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We are currently running IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

I am looking for a font rendering component. It should take a typeface
(Truetype) and print out the supplied text as a .GIF or .JPG

It should work with traditional .ASP or .NET.

I have looked at ServerObjects, Inc.

Any others?

Julian
Aug 3 '06 #1
5 1400
I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you may want to look into
Microsoft weft.
it allows you to create font objects that download onto the users machine
"stjulian" <st******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote in message
news:O8******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...
We are currently running IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

I am looking for a font rendering component. It should take a typeface
(Truetype) and print out the supplied text as a .GIF or .JPG

It should work with traditional .ASP or .NET.

I have looked at ServerObjects, Inc.

Any others?

Julian

Aug 3 '06 #2
Simple, I want to generate headline graphics on the fly without embedding a
font through weft (as I do on our intranet). Yahoo! Stores has a similar
html command available to create a graphic text element. It's just being
used to create labels and banners, not paragraph text (so much), and I have
Googled it till I'm Googley-eyed and cannot find but these two.

I have also looked at

PowerDoc for ASP/.NET
http://www.d-type.com/pdocasp/index.htm

ServerObjects, Inc.
http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/Aspimage.htm
Julian

"Slim" <me@here.comwro te in message
news:%2******** **********@TK2M SFTNGP06.phx.gb l...
I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you may want to look into
Microsoft weft.
it allows you to create font objects that download onto the users machine
"stjulian" <st******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote in message
news:O8******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...
>We are currently running IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

I am looking for a font rendering component. It should take a typeface
(Truetype) and print out the supplied text as a .GIF or .JPG

It should work with traditional .ASP or .NET.

I have looked at
Any others?

Julian


Aug 3 '06 #3
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "stjulian"
<st******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwriting in
news:eZ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl:

AFAIK, only PHP can do that.
Simple, I want to generate headline graphics on the fly without
embedding a font through weft (as I do on our intranet). Yahoo! Stores
has a similar html command available to create a graphic text element.
It's just being used to create labels and banners, not paragraph text
(so much), and I have Googled it till I'm Googley-eyed and cannot find
but these two.

I have also looked at

PowerDoc for ASP/.NET
http://www.d-type.com/pdocasp/index.htm

ServerObjects, Inc.
http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/Aspimage.htm
Julian

"Slim" <me@here.comwro te in message
news:%2******** **********@TK2M SFTNGP06.phx.gb l...
>I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you may want to look
into Microsoft weft.
it allows you to create font objects that download onto the users
machine
"stjulian" <st******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote in message
news:O8******* *******@TK2MSFT NGP02.phx.gbl.. .
>>We are currently running IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

I am looking for a font rendering component. It should take a
typeface (Truetype) and print out the supplied text as a .GIF or
.JPG

It should work with traditional .ASP or .NET.

I have looked at
Any others?

Julian





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Aug 4 '06 #4

stjulian wrote:
Simple, I want to generate headline graphics on the fly without embedding a
font through weft (as I do on our intranet). Yahoo! Stores has a similar
html command available to create a graphic text element. It's just being
used to create labels and banners, not paragraph text (so much), and I have
Googled it till I'm Googley-eyed and cannot find but these two.
Look at the GDI+ libraries in .Net. You should be able to end up with
a service which you can just pass '?text=Monkey' to, and it'll render
an image with that text in a fancy font and what-have-you.

Try this:
http://www.codersource.net/asp_net_i...om_string.aspx

And the GDI library references on MSDN:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...m.drawing.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...drawing2d.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...wing.text.aspx

I've seen it done quite neatly before, although haven't been directly
involved in it.

Aug 4 '06 #5
Have you looked at GDI+ and System.Drawing in dotnet?

--
Mike Brind
stjulian wrote:
Simple, I want to generate headline graphics on the fly without embedding a
font through weft (as I do on our intranet). Yahoo! Stores has a similar
html command available to create a graphic text element. It's just being
used to create labels and banners, not paragraph text (so much), and I have
Googled it till I'm Googley-eyed and cannot find but these two.

I have also looked at

PowerDoc for ASP/.NET
http://www.d-type.com/pdocasp/index.htm

ServerObjects, Inc.
http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/Aspimage.htm
Julian

"Slim" <me@here.comwro te in message
news:%2******** **********@TK2M SFTNGP06.phx.gb l...
I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you may want to look into
Microsoft weft.
it allows you to create font objects that download onto the users machine
"stjulian" <st******@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote in message
news:O8******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...
We are currently running IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

I am looking for a font rendering component. It should take a typeface
(Truetype) and print out the supplied text as a .GIF or .JPG

It should work with traditional .ASP or .NET.

I have looked at
Any others?

Julian
Aug 4 '06 #6

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