Editing text in image files

[Vrodok the Troll]

I think the URL above should be www.freeserifsoftware.com, where Serif
Draw Plus 4 can be downloaded.

GR

Ah. Better. Thank you.

 

[Susan Bugher]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:45:00 -0500, in alt.comp.freeware, M.L.
<[email protected]>, by way of Message-id


You sure about that site?

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

Susan
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[jack horsfield]

I'm basically looking for the best image editing freeware that will do
help me do the following:

1) Allow me to quickly overwrite the Japanese captions with their
English translations in the image files
2) Copy and paste captions from one image file to another (that is,
ability to save the overwritten text with formatting in the clipboard
and paste it in a different file)

i have a different method that i use from time to time. i'm not really
recommending it for everybody, but it works for me

i wrote a small gui4cli script that displays the image file as the
background to the gui4cli window. then i created gui4cli text boxes with
the text i needed.

when the script runs, the image is displayed and gui4cli lets you move the
screen components around... so i can drag the text boxes to the correct
positions to cover up the old text.

after that i do a screen capture of the gui4cli window, which has the new
text overlaid on the old image.

if you have lots of these to do it would be fairly easy to make it read the
text box labels from a file... i've never smartened it up cos it's only an
occasional thing.

gui4cli is available at www.gui4cli.com

my very simple script appended below.

jack
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G4C CaptureText

WINDOW 594 157 285 102 "CaptureText"
Winattr style resize
WinAttr Background color 212/208/200 // force color otherwise on XP the
groupboxes are all white

xOnLoad
loadfont "MS Sans Serif/8" ms8
GuiOpen #this
gosub #this loadimage

xOnClose
image free targetimage
GuiQuit #this

xOnKey ESCAPE
guiclose #this

xRoutine loadimage
Imagefile = 'ImageFile.gif' // set to name of image file to load. must be
in same folder as script.

image load '$$this.path/$Imagefile' targetimage // load base image that
we want to annotate
setwinattr #this background image targetimage // display the base image
as the background


XTEXTBOX 5 55 200 14 'A text label'
//attr color 0/0/0/237/237/237 //light grey background
attr color 0/0/0/255/255/255 //white background
attr font ms8


XTEXTBOX 55 80 200 14 'Another text label'
//attr color 0/0/0/255/255/255 //white background
attr color 0/0/0/212/210/204 //grey background
attr font ms8