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Brett Hawn

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Aug 15, 1995, 3:00:00 AM8/15/95
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When I posted last time I apparently didn't make myself clear enough as I
got numerous pieces of mail telling me which graphics aplications I should
use, etc.. this is NOT what I needed although I thank those that
responded.

What I DO need is this: I have a list of possible portions of text that I
would like to 'float' on a singular image. What this means is that I don't
want to have to make a copy of the image for every possible piece of text.
The text will be chosen at random from a list and placed in a table ontop
of an image. I realize that this may not be possible in any way (I know
it's not via legal HTML) but if there is some way to 'hack' this I'd
much perfer some 'illegal' HTML than 50+ images of the same damn thing
just differing text.

Brett


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Todd C. Wilson

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Aug 15, 1995, 3:00:00 AM8/15/95
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pir...@draconia.com (Brett Hawn) wrote:

>[wants a way to dynamicly "float" text]

Sorry, but there are only two things that you can do: make a background image
and use the Netscape extenstions to place the text juuuust right, or else
write a program to generate a GIF based on the TEXT (yuk).

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Kevin Kadow

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Aug 17, 1995, 3:00:00 AM8/17/95
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In article <40qtur$1...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,

Todd C. Wilson <t...@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>pir...@draconia.com (Brett Hawn) wrote:
>
>>[wants a way to dynamicly "float" text]
>
>Sorry, but there are only two things that you can do: make a background image
>and use the Netscape extenstions to place the text juuuust right, or else
>write a program to generate a GIF based on the TEXT (yuk).

Or get ImageMagick (Unix) and/or PBMplus, and generate an image of the
text on-the-fly and combine it with the underlying image.

Michel Vuijlsteke

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Aug 18, 1995, 3:00:00 AM8/18/95
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t...@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu (Todd C. Wilson) wrote:

>pir...@draconia.com (Brett Hawn) wrote:

>>[wants a way to dynamicly "float" text]

>Sorry, but there are only two things that you can do: make a background image
>and use the Netscape extenstions to place the text juuuust right, or else
>write a program to generate a GIF based on the TEXT (yuk).

Nope. There is a way. And it's not prett: as bugs in Netscape go this
is one of the nastier ones.

Right. Say you want to print "blurgh" on top of a jpeg "blah.jpg".

<table><tr><td><img align=left
src="blah.jpg"></td><td>blurgh</td></tr></table>

There ya go.

Michel Vuijlsteke


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