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Posted by Aaron Dalton on March 5, 2005, 3:08 pm
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I am trying to Annotate an image with a character from the Webdings
font. I am running on a FreeBSD 5.3 box and all appropriate libraries
are installed. I can Annotate just fine with say an Arial font, but
when I want a special character from Webdings, it doesn't work. Below
is a code snippet:
use Image::Magick;
my $img = Image::Magick->new(size=>'100x100');
$img->Read('xc:white');
$img->Annotate(text=>"x",
font=>'/home/html/games/data/webding.ttf', pointsize=>136,
stroke=>'black', encoding=>'UTF-8', gravity=>'Center');
$img->Write(filename=>'png:test.png');
Now, you *should* get an upward-pointing arrow. But instead I get an
accented lowercase 'e'. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you so much for your time and assistance.
Aaron
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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on March 5, 2005, 10:21 pm
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> I am trying to Annotate an image with a character from the Webdings
> font.
Although I'm not familiar in details with the specific software you're
trying to use here, if it's Unicode-supporting software then that's
almost certainly irrelevant. Of more interest is - what's its Unicode
value?
> $img->Annotate(text=>"x",
That character is authoritatively e-acute in Unicode. If you find
Unicode-supporting software which displays anything else, it's in a
state of sin.
> Now, you *should* get an upward-pointing arrow.
No, you *should* get e-acute. If your Webdings font doesn't contain
an e-acute then it's counterproductive to ask for it, but the software
should have some kind of fallback whereby it'll go and find another
font which -does- contain it.
> But instead I get an accented lowercase 'e'.
So it's working!
> What am I doing wrong?
You're failing to specify the Unicode character for upward arrow.
Possibly it's x that you're looking for, but feel free to
browse around the Unicode database. Or if you want it in HTML, I have
a version at http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/unicode/
in this case I think you want something from the page
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/unicode/unidata21.html
good luck (this isn't really a Perl problem, though).
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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on March 6, 2005, 1:08 am
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> You're failing to specify the Unicode character for upward arrow.
> Possibly it's x that you're looking for, but feel free to
> browse around the Unicode database.
Well, having now browsed the font, I see that it has your arrow in the
"private use area" at x - since that's in the PUA, you won't
find the actual glyphs tabulated in the Unicode database.
That isn't a very robust way to use Unicode, but it *might* serve your
current purposes (untested in the specific context, sorry).
(still isn't a Perl problem, though, but I can't work out where best
to redirect it, so I'll stick. Apologies to the regulars.)
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Posted by Aaron Dalton on March 6, 2005, 8:38 am
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Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>
>
>>You're failing to specify the Unicode character for upward arrow.
>>Possibly it's x that you're looking for, but feel free to
>>browse around the Unicode database.
>
>
> Well, having now browsed the font, I see that it has your arrow in the
> "private use area" at x - since that's in the PUA, you won't
> find the actual glyphs tabulated in the Unicode database.
>
I apologize. I obviously completely misunderstood my problem. I did
not understand all the issues surrounding Unicode. Really all I want is
for the PerlMagick module to use the glyph labeled Character+# in the
Webdings font table in my Annotate command. I've tried chr(#) to no
avail. I noticed a fair number of PerlMagick Q/A's in the newsgroup so
I ventured to ask the question. I will find a more germane venue to
explore. I do sincerely appreciate your time and response, however!
Cheers!
Aaron
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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on March 6, 2005, 4:11 pm
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On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> I apologize. I obviously completely misunderstood my problem.
Not at all. It's a very common structure clash (and - for all that I
knew - it *might* even have "worked" - I mean "worked" in the sense of
doing what the author intended, rather than in the sense which the
specifications require). But you say that it didn't, and that's where
I came in...
> Really all I want is for the PerlMagick module to use the glyph
> labeled Character+# in the Webdings font
Sure, I understand that; but that isn't how Unicode is meant to work,
and - since you said it wasn't doing what you intended, I drew the
conclusion that it was doing what Unicode intended instead.
I'm sorry I couldn't offer more concrete help in terms of this
particular software, though. Did anything useful happen when you
tried x ? - from your lack of response, I presume the answer
must have been "no".
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