thrashr888 / textorize-server

Installation

textorize-server requires textorize to be installed. Once it's installed, clone these files straight into your web root.

Install textorize from Gemcutter:

$ gem install textorize

Or install textorize from Github:

$> gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
$> sudo gem install madrobby-textorize

Then clone textorize into your web root and setup the cache folder:

$> cd <your project's web root>
$> git clone git://github.com/thrashr888/textorize-server.git textorize-server
$> chmod 777 textorize/cache

Usage

Try it out on a webpage like so:

<img src="/textorize-server/img.php?f=arial&s=20&c=000000&g=ffffff&m=just_a_test" alt="just_a_test">

Or in your browser here:

http://localhost/textorize/test.html

And it should come out looking like this:

So far, textorize-server supports these options:

• f = font (whatever is installed on your server)
• s = size
• c = color
• g = background
• m = message

How it works

textorize-server turns the url into arguments for textorize to run on the server. It then caches the generated image and serves from the cache. If the file already exists, it skips the generation and just serves the cached image.

Disclaimer for Linux servers

textorize (I belive) only works on OS X because it uses MacRuby for it's image generation. A work-around for running this on your Linux servers is to view your website on your local machine and push the cached files to your server along with the code. This isn't perfect, but it should work!

License & Credit

MIT License Copyright (c) 2009 Paul Thrasher (http://vastermonster.com)

textorize by Thomas Fuchs (http://textorize.org/)