Generating image from text on the fly

Question

User-333244544 posted

Hi.

I want to create a simple menu by using a site map, but having the nodes displayed as images, rather than text.

I have found a few places on the web which discuss using JScript or ASP.NET to create an image on the fly from a text string.

These are great if you know in advance that your text will fit into a specific size bitmap.  Unfortunmately, none of these works with dynamic lengths of strings, and this really what I would like to do.

I'm not sure if Silverlight might be able to help me, but I would rather do all this server-side, because then I know for certain that the font I want to use is available :)

(I do most of my programming in VB)

Answer 1

User187056398 posted

This may help you get started:

http://weblogs.asp.net/nannettethacker/archive/2009/01/14/image-text-using-gdi-creating-an-image-from-text-or-adding-text-to-an-existing-image.aspx

Answer 2

User-333244544 posted

Thanks.

I see that "MeasureString" is the key :)