Fwd: [FYI] Using Graphic Commands on Server

[Richard Gaskin]

stephen barncard wrote:
 > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> Do we have the ability to export objects other than images in
 >> that build?
 >>
 >> Once we can export groups we have custom greeting cards and a
 >> whole lot more...
 >>
 > Richard,
 >
 > Help me out here - scratching my head...
 > what grouped objects would be useful on server?

Suppose for example you want to make customized greeting cards.  So you 
have a selection of pictures, and let the user enter text, which will be 
embedded in the image.

If you had to calculate the pixel positions for every letter and insert 
them by monkeying with the imageData, it would be tedious, error-prone, 
and probably look horrible.

Much simpler would be to have a script that takes the input from the 
user, sets the text of a field, and exports a snapshot of a group which 
contains the field and the original picture, generating a composite JPEG 
which can be sent back to the browser or emailed.

There are all sorts of things we can do by combining vector objects to 
create raster ouput - provided, of course, that the latest LC server now 
has its image rendering sufficiently factored from the UI routines that 
it's at long last possible.

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  Richard Gaskin
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