Text on pictures

[scotty]

Hello...

I am trying to figure out how I can put text over a jpeg picture and then resave it.
I would prefer a way without having to display the picture full size.

Any ideas or direction?
Thanks.
Scott

[Gimpster]

Could you be more specific? Are you trying to do this while inside your program? Or are you just trying to get a picture to use somewhere else? Please clarify.

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Thanks,
Ryan
corneslen@hotmail.com
ICQ# 47799046

[scotty]

I need to build a program to "brand" real estate pictures with a few word description and web address. I am familiar with
Loadpicture... it seems Savepicture only saves in BMP. I need to save in Jpeg...

I thought about finding a VB paint program and modifying it but haven't had much luck finding one.

Any ideas? If this needs to be done in C++ I have Visual C++, although not very familiar with it.

Thanks...
Scott

[Gimpster]

Well, I can't answer your question, there. I know that VB can open and view jpegs, however, I don't know how to edit them, or save them again in VB. You can probably do it, but it sounds like an API function to me. Send a message to Aaron Young, though, explaining your problem, he's really good, and he can probably answer your question. His email is: aarony@redwingsoftware.com

or you could try posting this on the General VB forum. Good luck to you, I wish I could help more.

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Thanks,
Ryan
corneslen@hotmail.com
ICQ# 47799046

[darkelf]

Set the CurrentX and CurrentY properties for the picturebox the pic is in, and then use picture1.print to put text on it...

[scotty]

Thanks for all the advice...

Feel like I'm making progress...tried
picture1.print [string]
...it puts words on the picture, but I can't save the picture with the words on it.

Tried researching autoredraw but no luck...
Ideas?

Scott

[Mark Sreeves]

You can't do picture1.print with vb5
Is this possible with vb6?

You could load the picture directly onto a form and then printtext onto the form and then savepicture from there...



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Mark Sreeves
Analyst Programmer

Mark.Sreeves@Softlab.co.uk
A BMW Group Company

[jkurpias]

The Kodak Image Edit Control that ships with VB permits all kinds of annotations printed over an image file. It opens JPEG's but only saves as TIFF, AWD or BMP! I believe Kodak has a more complete implementation of the thier control and I have requested more info from them.

Does anyone have any more info on the Kodak Image Edit Control?

[scotty]

It seems that saving jpegs in VB has an obscure solution.

[jkurpias]

Try this link: http://vbaccelerator.com/
Click on VBMedia under Code
Select the first item "Saving pictures to JPEG"

The code saves a picturebox image as a jpeg but the compression settings don't seem to work.

But, I can't get text printed on an image to save to either bmp or jpeg! Have you had any success?