Re: Rendering text *into* an image

[Bob Proulx]

Joseph Garvin wrote:
> Is there a way in emacs lisp to render text *into* an image? To be clear, I
> don't mean I want to display an image in an emacs buffer. I mean I want to
> have emacs render some text as if it was going to be displayed but instead
> of displaying it to save it into an image file. I've found (create-image)
> for working with already existing images and byte arrays but I haven't
> found any way to get emacs to render text into a new one.

You can use Imagemagick to do this.

  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/

That program could be called from emacs lisp and integrated within emacs.

Bob