<gtext></gtext>

Attributes

alt
alt=string

Sets the alt attribute of the generated <img> tag. By default the alt attribute will be set to the contents of the <gtext> tag.

<gtext fgcolor="blue" alt="Hello!">Welcome!</gtext>

border
border=width,color

Draws a border around the text of the specified width and color.

<gtext fgcolor="blue" border="2,red">Red border</gtext>

href
href=URL

Link the image to the specified URL. The link color of the document will be used as the default foreground rather than the foreground color.

magic
magic=message

Used together with the href attribute to generate a JavaScript that will highlight the image when the mouse is moved over it. The message is shown in the browser's status bar.

<gtext href="http://www.roxen.com" magic="Roxen" magic-fgcolor="red">www.roxen.com</gtext>

magic-attribute
magic-attribute=value

Same as for any <gtext> attribute, except for the highlighted image.

<gtext fgcolor="blue" magic-glow="yellow" magic-fgcolor="#ff8c00" magic="">Magic attribute</gtext>

noxml

Do not terminate the image tag with "/".

split

This will allow the browser to word-wrap the text, but will disable certain attributes like magic.

<gtext scale="0.4" split="">Make each word..</gtext>

submit

Creates a submit-button for forms. Does not work together with split or magic arguments.

afont

alpha
alpha=path

Use the specified image as an alpha channel, together with the background attribute.

background
background=path

Specifies the image to use as background.

bevel
bevel=width

Draws a bevel-box around the text.

<gtext bevel="2">Ok</gtext>

bgcolor
bgcolor=color

Sets the background color. Normally taken from the normal HTML tags in your document (Currently: body, table, tr or td).

If you set the background color, it is probably best to add the notrans attribute as well.

<gtext notrans="" bgcolor="pink">Pink</gtext> <gtext notrans="" bgcolor="#ff0000">Red</gtext> <gtext notrans="" bgcolor="%50,0,100,0">%50,0,100,0</gtext>

bgturbulence
bgturbulence=frequency,color;frequency,color...

Apply a turbulence effect on the background.

black

Use a black, or heavy, version of the font, if available.

bold

Use a bold version of the font, if available.

bshadow
bshadow=distance

Draw a blured black drop-shadow behind the text. Using 0 as distance does not currently place the shadow directly below the text. Using negative values for distance is possible, but you might have to add 'spacing'.

<gtext scale="0.8" fgcolor="#FF6600" bshadow="1">&lt;gtext bshadow=1&gt;</gtext><br /> <gtext scale="0.8" fgcolor="#FF6600" bshadow="2">&lt;gtext bshadow=2&gt;</gtext>

chisel

Make the text look like it has been cut into the background.

<gtext bold="" ypad="-40%" xpad="-20%" chisel="" talign="center" opaque="70" fgcolor="gold" bevel="2" background="tiles.jpg"> Chisel opaque=70</gtext>

crop

Remove all white-space around the image

encoding
encoding=string

Choose with which charset the text is encoded with.

fgcolor
fgcolor=color

Sets the text color.

<gtext fgcolor="#0080FF">#0080FF</gtext>

font
font=string

fontsize
fontsize=number

format
format=string

Set the image format, e.g. "png".

fs

Apply floyd-steinberg dithering to the resulting image. Most of the time it is much better to increase the number of colors, instead of dithering the image, but sometimes when using very complex background images dithering is O.K.

ghost
ghost=dist,blur,color

Apply a ghost effect. Cannot be used together with shadow or magic coloring.

<gtext spacing="2" crop="" ghost="1,1,red">ghost=1,1,red</gtext> <gtext spacing="2" crop="" ghost="1,3,blue">ghost=1,3,blue</gtext> <gtext spacing="2" crop="" bshadow="1" opaque="90" ghost="-1,1,yellow">ghost=-1,1,yellow opaque=90 bshadow=1</gtext>

glow
glow=color

Apply a 'glow' filter to the image. Quite a CPU eater. Looks much better on a dark background, where a real 'glow' effect can be achieved.

<gtext glow="red">&lt;gtext glow=red&gt;</gtext>

italic

Use an italic version of the font, if available.

light

Use a light version of the font, if available.

maxlen
maxlen=number

Sets the maximum length of the text that will be rendered into an image, by default 300.

mirrortile

Tiles the background and foreground images around x-axis and y-axis for odd frames, creating seamless textures.

move
move=x,y

Moves the text relative to the upper left corner of the background image. This will not change the size of the image.

narrow

Use a narroe version of the font, if available.

nfont
nfont=fontname

Select a font using somewhat more memonic font-names. You can get a font-list by accessing the administration interface.

There are several modifiers available: bold, italic, black and light. If the requested version of the font is available, it will be used to render the text, otherwise the closest match will be used.

<gtext nfont="futura" light="" >Light</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" light="" italic="">Italic</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" >Normal</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" italic="" >Italic</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" bold="" >Bold</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" bold="" italic="">Italic</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" black="" >Black</gtext> <gtext nfont="futura" black="" italic="">Italic</gtext>

notrans

Do not make the background transparent. Useful when making 'boxes' of color around the text.

<gtext bgcolor="red">&lt;gtext bgcolor=red&gt;</gtext> <gtext bgcolor="red" notrans="">&lt;gtext bgcolor=red notrans&gt;</gtext>

nowhitespace

Removes all whitespaces before and after the real text.

opaque
opaque=percentage

Sets the 'opaque' value of the color used to draw the text. Default is 100%. In the example below, notice how the text color mixes with the two background colors

<gtext scale="0.6" textbox="100,pink,-11" bgcolor="lightblue" notrans="" opaque="40" fgcolor="black">&lt;Demonstration of opaque text&gt;</gtext>

outline
outline=color,extra-radius

Draw an outline around the text. Quite useful when combined with textscale.

<gtext xspacing="4" quant="128" textscale="red,red,yellow,yellow" outline="black,1">black, 2 pixels</gtext>

pressed

Inverts the direction of the bevel box, to make it look like a button that is pressed down. The magic modifier will do this automatically.

quant
quant=number

Quantifies the image with this number of colors. Using a lower number will decrease the image (file)size, but make the text look more 'edgy', and if you use complex backgrounds or image textures, more colors will be neded. At most 255 colors can be used, and less than 2 is quite useless. It is advisable to use powers of 2 to optimize the palette allocation.

<gtext quant="2">A</gtext> <gtext quant="6">A</gtext> <gtext quant="20">A</gtext> <gtext quant="200">A</gtext>

rescale

Rescale the background to fill the whole image.

rotate
rotate=angle

Rotates the image this number of degrees counter-clockwise.

scale
scale=number

Sets the scale of the image. Larger than 1.0 is enlargement.

<gtext scale="1.0">&lt;gtext scale=1.0&gt;</gtext> <gtext scale="0.5">&lt;gtext scale=0.5&gt;</gtext>

scolor
scolor=color

Use this color for the shadow. Used with the shadow attribute.

shadow
shadow=intensity,distance

Draw a blured black drop-shadow behind the text. Using 0 as distance does not currently place the shadow directly below the text. Using negative values for distance is possible,

<gtext scale="0.8" fgcolor="blue" shadow="40,0">&lt;gtext shadow=40,0&gt;</gtext><br /> <gtext scale="0.8" fgcolor="blue" shadow="40,2">&lt;gtext shadow=40,2&gt;</gtext><br />

size
size=width,height

Set the size of the image.

spacing
spacing=number

Add space around the text.

talign
talign={left, right, center}

Adjust the alignment of the text.

textbelow
textbelow=color

Place the text centered in a box of the given color below the image area. Useful together with background to make captions for images.

<gtext scale="0.5" background="internal-roxen-roxen" textbelow="#c0c0c0">Roxen</gtext>

textbox
textbox=opaque,color

Draw a box with an opaque value below the text of the specified color.

textscale
textscale=color,color,color,color

Apply a color filter to the text. The colors are, respectively, upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right. It is probably a good idea to increase the 'quant' value when using this argument.

<gtext quant="128" textscale="blue,red,black,darkgreen">Blue, red, black, darkgreen</gtext>

texture
texture=path

Uses the specified images as a field texture.

tile

Tiles the background and foreground images if they are smaller than the actual image.

verbatim

Allows the gtext parser to not be typographically correct.

xpad
xpad=percentage

Sets the padding between characters.

<gtext xpad="-30%" scale="0.6">&lt;gtext xpad=-30%&gt;</gtext><br /> <gtext xpad="-10%" scale="0.6">&lt;gtext xpad=-10%&gt;</gtext><br /> <gtext scale="0.6">&lt;gtext&gt;</gtext><br /> <gtext xpad="10%" scale="0.6">&lt;gtext xpad=10%&gt;</gtext><br /> <gtext xpad="30%" scale="0.6">&lt;gtext xpad=30%&gt;</gtext><br />

xsize
xsize=number

Sets the width.

xspacing
xspacing=number

Sets the horizontal spacing.

ypad
ypad=percentage

Sets the padding beteen lines.

ysize
ysize=number

Sets the height.

yspacing
yspacing=number

Sets the vertical spacing.