Shayton Equilibrium 2003 Manual

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Wrap - if speciﬁed, its value forces a new line whenever the text gets longer than the

speciﬁed number of pixels (in this case correct word breaking is used).

Angle - allows the text to be rotated clockwise by the speciﬁed angle (in degrees).

Line - speciﬁes the line spacing. The default spacing between lines of text is 1.5.

Smooth - speciﬁes that the text is drawn with ﬁve-level anti-aliasing.

SmoothFactor - speciﬁes the power of two for image scale-based smoothing. If “1” is

speciﬁed, the text will be drawn at twice the speciﬁed size and scaled down. If “2” is

speciﬁed, the text is drawn at four times the size. This scaling produces smoother text for

renderers with poor anti-aliasing at smaller text sizes. The Smooth parameter must be set

to “true” for this parameter to have any effect.

Baseline - if speciﬁed, the text is treated as though it is always the height of the largest

character. This allows text to be aligned between different calls to the function. The

distance, in pixels, between the baselines of two lines of text is 1.5 times the point-size of

the text. Thus for 30-point text the line spacing is 45 pixels. If this parameter is not speciﬁed,

makeText measures the actual height of the text and centers it accordingly.

Kern - if set to “true”, optimizes the spacing between text characters. By default this is set

to true. If you do not want to use kerning, this must be speciﬁed as false.

NOTE: PostScript fonts store the Kerning information in a separate ﬁle with a .afm extension. This

ﬁle must be present in order for kerning to be applied to the text.

DPI - allows you to specify the image resolution in dots per inch (DPI).

NOTE: The DPI parameter is not available if MediaRich is running on Mac, Linux, or Solaris.

Fillcolor - speciﬁes the color to be used for the background. The default value is black.

ClearType - if speciﬁed as “true”, the Windows ClearType text renderer will be used if

available.

FitText - if speciﬁed as “true”, any empty space surrounding the generated text is

removed.

Example

var image = new Media();

image.makeText(text @ "Your message goes here.",Font @ "Arial",

Style @ "Bold", color @ 0xffff00, smooth @ true);

image.save(type @ "jpeg");