Ask HN: How do you generate images from text?

1 pointmcartyem4 comments

Don't say Gimp script-fu, because it doesn't work. And don't say Imagemagick, because it's ugly.

Someone pinch me, is this really the 21st century?

Many languages support creating image maps and then writing strings to text to it. Not that hard a process.

Name one.

Not that hard? Show me how.

You can draw the text into HTML5 Canvas and then convert that to an image (toDataURL).

"Draw the text"? How?

Why can't I type the text and have it drawn for me?