"Powerpoint" effect

[xpt]

Hi,

For lack of better names, let me just call it "Powerpoint" effect, because what I want is exactly what Powerpoint is doing -- text shadowing.

I want to feed a script with a text file, and the script will generate a transparent-background image with the text converted to images, with the given font, size and color. The trick, ie, what I mean by "Powerpoint" effect, is that the text are added with typical drop shadow that's offset to the bottom right.

The idea is the same as

Hard Shadow
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/#hard_shadow

But instead of draw the specific text twice manually, I want the script to do it. And also, instead of that the prominent hard shadow, I hope the script can figure out what is "just enough" shadow for the given font size, just like what Powerpoint is doing.

Thanks

[fmw42]

see -shadow at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/blur/#shadow and the subsequent sections. Just use text on a transparent background and then use -shadow. Also see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... d42#shadow. You will have to set the amount of shadow or program some values depending upon the font size in your script.

[xpt]

Oh, didn't occur to me that -shadow can work for text as well.
Thanks for the swift reply Fred.

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[anthony]

Also see the more direct example of Shadowed Text
IM Examples Compound Text
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Ther are quite a few different methods of shadowing, from hard, 3d, soft or fuzzy, distance blurred, etc.