Posts Tagged ‘text’

Text in Images

Friday, July 11th, 2008

When is text not text? When it is a part of an image. As far as most computer programs are concerned text and images are two completely different things and any text that you have placed inside an image is just a part of that image and can’t be read by the program. There are a few exceptions to this all of which involve optical character recognition.

Text in Images

Replacing Text in a Graphic

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

When you have an image that contains text, the text may or may not be all that readable - especially if you have resized the image from its original size. Provided that he text doesn’t overlap anything too complex in the image you should be able to remove hat current text and replace it with new easier to read text as this Paint Shop Pro tutorial illustrates.

Replacing Text in a Graphic

Textured Text

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

You can make the heading text of your web page look more interesting if you texture it. By combining some text in an interesting font with an image of something we can apply part of the image as the text colour to make the text more interesting than if we were to just use a plain colour.

Textured Text

The Difference Between Binary and Text Files

Friday, May 9th, 2008

When coding your C or C++ program (or any related language for that matter) you will need to specify that the files that you read and/or write be opened either in text mode or in binary mode. In this article we examine what the difference actually is between these two modes.

The Difference Between Binary and Text Files

Displaying “Random” Text or Images

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Where you don’t have access to use server side processing to place random content into your web page you can use JavaScript to do it for you.

Displaying “Random” Text or Images