The GIF_text addon for SRE-http


GIF_text	(updated 5 March 2001)	Try It

GIF_text for OS/2 (ver 1.3c) converts text strings into.GIF images. Using one of the several included "alphabyte" it's easy to make attractive banners, headers, and other messages.

Some of GIF_TEXT's features include:

dynamically generate time and date using one of several REXX formats. -- you can use GIF_TEXT as a graphical digital-clock for your web pages.

backgrounds can be added to your message

addition of new "alphabytes" is easy -- and with a little bit of effort, you can even use true-type fonts.

GIF messages can be created using any TTF font

messages can be sized to specific height and width

messages can contain several lines of text, and can contain embedded font changes

character specific scaling

color slides, color gradients, or foreground images can be used to color the text; with probability and original-color-value based transformation rules.

using included HTML FORM documents, it's easy to create images -- including "buttons with text"

a FORM based HTML front-end is included

when used with SRE-http, a "download pieces as they become available" mode can be used to speed up percieved throughput

Would you like to read the GIF_text manual?

Or, are you ready to download the latest version of gif_text.zip (updated 5 March 2001, size= 1.45M)

GIF_text (which is written in REXX) can be run from an OS/2 command prompt, as a CGI-BIN script, or as an addon for the SRE-http web server. It's optimized for SRE-http, but should work under any CGI-bin compliant OS/2 web server.

http://WWW.SREHTTP.ORG/apps/gif_text/, created 21 Apr 2001