Is it possible to set a background color attribute when using ImageDrawText?

[CFGadget]

It's not obvious as to how to set a background color which is by default, black.

[Adam Cameron.]

Err... no it ain't.  There's no "default" because text written with imageDrawText() doesn't have any background colour.  It just writes the text over the top of whatever is there.

Can you provide a repro case that demonstrates what you're seeing.  Also attach "before" and "after" examples of images having been processed by your repro case.

Also: what version of CF are you on, what JVM version, and what OS.

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Adam

[Dave Ferguson]

This actually is possible. Here is a link to a blog post I did a while back about creating a pure text image.  You can then, in theory, place the result of that image onto a colored box.

http://blog.dkferguson.com/index.cfm/2009/8/25/Creating-text-image-with-ColdFusion-8

--Dave

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CFGadget wrote:

It's not obvious as to how to set a background color which is by default, black.

Assuming you mean set the background color of a new image, just set the desired canvas color using hex or a named color ie "red", "white", ...

                ImageNew([source, width, height, imageType, canvasColor])