On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:50 AM <sntshkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > More or less I'm trying to replicate placeholder.com in Python. I'll be using > Django in the backend. Given all the parameters, I'm not sure how will I be > generating the images. > > * I will be passing width and height of the image and maybe the text and > background color. > * I also want to center the text vertically and horizontally. > * The text size will be increased proportionally to the image being > generated. > > Can someone enlighten my path? What libraries can be capable of doing this?
Django is irrelevant here, so what you're trying to do is use Python code to generate an image containing some text. I don't know the specifics of that, but I know where I'd go looking, and that's Pillow. (No, I don't mean that I'd sleep on it, although that IS often a good idea.) Here's the docs: https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/5.3.x/ The ImageDraw and ImageFont modules look promising here. I would recommend creating a stand-alone script (outside of Django and the whole web server system) that generates and saves an image, and only bring it into your web server once it's working. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
