ImagickDraw::setTextUnderColor

(PECL imagick 2, PECL imagick 3)

ImagickDraw::setTextUnderColorSpecifies the color of a background rectangle

Description

public ImagickDraw::setTextUnderColor(ImagickPixel $under_color): bool
Warning

This function is currently not documented; only its argument list is available.

Specifies the color of a background rectangle to place under text annotations.

Parameters

under_color

the under color

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 ImagickDraw::setTextUnderColor() example

<?php
function setTextUnderColor($strokeColor, $fillColor, $backgroundColor, $textUnderColor) {
$draw = new \ImagickDraw();

$draw->setStrokeColor($strokeColor);
$draw->setFillColor($fillColor);
$draw->setStrokeWidth(2);
$draw->setFontSize(72);
$draw->annotation(50, 75, "Lorem Ipsum!");
$draw->setTextUnderColor($textUnderColor);
$draw->annotation(50, 175, "Lorem Ipsum!");

$imagick = new \Imagick();
$imagick->newImage(500, 500, $backgroundColor);
$imagick->setImageFormat("png");

$imagick->drawImage($draw);

header("Content-Type: image/png");
echo
$imagick->getImageBlob();
}

?>

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www dot query at gmail dot com
12 years ago
When wishing to print some text on a photograph and make that text sufficiently contrasting to the background image, use a 4 byte code for colour and transparency.

It is the same 4 byte code using by the parameter '-undercolor' in ImageMagick's command lime instruction 'convert'.

The first 3 bytes are the RGB colour code and the fourth byte is the transparency byte.

<?php

    $draw
= new ImagickDraw();
   
$draw->setFillColor('#ffff00');
   
$draw->setFont('Eurostile');
   
$draw->setFontSize(21);
   
$draw->setTextUnderColor('#ff000088');
   
$picin->annotateImage($draw,40,$height-10,0,"Hallo");

?>

The example code produces yellow text on a semi-transparent red background.
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