TextImage (1.0.1)

TextImage

This Plone product has been developed by Atopia to generate images displaying rendered text. This product allows a Plone site to display text in any font uploaded into this product, independent of the enduser's browser or fonts installed therein. Using this tool provides more freedom in customising typesetting of a Plone site.

The images will be generated by a portal tool in response to a URL like:

                string:${portal_url}/portal_textimage/generate_textimage?text=Atopia.nl&align=left&fontId=FreeSansBold&fontSize=24&fontColor=B3DC20&backgroundColor=FFFFFF&backgroundWidth=128&backgroundHeight=64

Note that all arguments are optional and that color do not have a prefix #. If an argument is omitted, the portal default setting will be used. So use:

                string:${portal_url}/portal_textimage/generate_textimage

to use only default settings.

This product has been developed with ArgoUML, ArchGenXML, custom Plone Archetype and Page Template development.

Installation

Before installing product in the Plone site, make the following requirements have to be fulfilled:

• Python (>= 2.3.5) installed (preferably from a distribution repository)
• Zope (>= 2.8.5) installed (preferable from a distribution repository) and create an instance
• Plone (>= 2.1.2) installed (preferably from a distribution repository), link all its Products in the Zope Products directory and create a site
• ATColorPickerWidget and install this product in the site

Make sure the unpacked products and links have the correct user, group and rights.

Use the Plone Quick Installer to install this product and the products mentioned above, see Add/Remove Products in Plone Configuration of the Site Setup.

Simply add a font (TTF) to portal_textimage and the H1 in your site will be replaced with images.

Implementations

• Atopia
• DBMail