Hi there,

Great module - am using it to dynamically add captions using the text action, however there is one issue. The positioning of the text is based (as far as I can tell) on the base of the text, rather than the baseline, and therefore has a different position if there are y,g,p,q,| charachters etc. (anything with tails). Is there anyway to make all text justified the same so that my captions are all in the same place?

Thanks,

Adam

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dman commented

That's a problem I've seen in tests, but don't have an answer for.
The current method is - draw the text, find its bounding box, align that. I treat the rendered text as a graphic element.
So yeah, you get variable results with descenders!

The real way - using GD and its baseline-positioning dimensions meant that I needed to juggle a lot more numbers. See, supporting ROTATION in the mix, along with borders and shadows meant it was all-but-impossible to figure out how to really align something bottom so it would always clear correctly.

I think the only way will be to allow a position:absolute sort of override - though that was only going to work with fixed-size images and my alignment effects would be ignored. You can get that by using top+400 instead of bottom-10. Probably.

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dman commented

Image rendering library is being revamped in 6.x-2.x-dev
I expect to put a line-height into that, as it's now got word-wrapping and more to do

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Meaning, I'll retire this issue from here maybe revisit it on imageapi_text

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bkosborne
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Hmm any word on this? Proving to be quite a problem on my site now...