app which puts custom text on an image

[buletov]

Hi, there.

I need some kind of a tool which can be instructed via

command line to put some text on an existing bitmap.

for example:

sometool.exe /txt="some text" /img="C:\myimage.bmp" /offsetx=300 /offsety=120 /color="#FFFFFF"

more details on why i need this is in thread:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=37614

thank you.

[buletov]

@moderators: (please move this to Graphics and Designing Art forum)

[Astalavista]

i think u are talking about watermarking

[buletov]

thy astalavista, i'm getting some good results now at google...

embeding is also a good keyword...

[Astalavista]

u can use photoshop cs or illustrator both hv watermark features

[buletov]

I need some kind of a tool which can be instructed via

command line to put some text on an existing bitmap.

as i said...

[SiMoNsAyS]

i think it can be achieved with an autoit script. it can be a LOT of work but at T-12 (i'm not really sure) paint is already installed so you can launch an autoit script for every user.

the script would open paint and the image launching key strokes. then it can write in the image and save it.

this is just an idea and it can be really, really tricky. contact Nologic, i think he is good at this.

[SiMoNsAyS]

i think i got it:

http://www.imagemagick.org/

command-line examples

# convert -font helvetica -fill white -pointsize 36 \
-draw 'text 10,50 "Floriade 2002, Canberra, Australia"' \
floriade.jpg comment.jpg

[buletov]

nice one...

will test it these days with xp boot logo and report back...

(one more trich is that windows boot logo is a 16 color image, with all all pallete colors set to 0,0,0, so it's quite tricky to see what pallete color will be used for text... my hopes is that it will use last pallete entry, cause it is white)