How to engrave and wrap text around any object (image).

Ok here are the details:

I need to get an image from the user. Than i have to add text on this image. this is very simple. The problem is that i have to give engrave effect to text. This is the difficult part. I have tried diffrent methods. but non of them work. I was able to give emboss effect to text but not the engrave effect.

public void paintComponent(Graphics go){

//System.out.println("Go");

Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)go;

RenderingHints hints = new RenderingHints(null);

int n=0;

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_COLOR_RENDERING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_COLOR_RENDER_QUALITY);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION,

RenderingHints.VALUE_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,

RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_STROKE_CONTROL,

RenderingHints.VALUE_STROKE_NORMALIZE);

if(flags[n++])

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_DITHERING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_DITHER_ENABLE);

hints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS,

RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);

g.setRenderingHints(hints);

if(shape==null){

start = System.currentTimeMillis();

Font font = getFont();

font = font.deriveFont(Font.BOLD, textSize);

//new Font(font.getFontName(), Font.BOLD, textSize);

Stroke bs = new BasicStroke(fatten);

//g.setStroke(bs);

GlyphVector gv = font.createGlyphVector(g.getFontRenderContext(),

text);

// 1 degrees = 0.0174532925 radians

int maxTilt = 20;

GeneralPath path = new GeneralPath();

Random random = new Random();

if(jiggle){

for(int i=0;i<gv.getNumGlyphs();i++){

double r = (random.nextInt(2*maxTilt)-maxTilt)*0.0174532925;

AffineTransform trans = gv.getGlyphTransform(i);

Shape sh = gv.getGlyphOutline(i);

Rectangle shr = sh.getBounds();

double cx = shr.getCenterX();

double cy = shr.getCenterY();

// jdk1.5 return null?

if(trans==null)

trans = new AffineTransform();

trans.rotate(r,cx,cy);

////gv.setGlyphTransform(i, trans);

////trans = gv.getGlyphTransform(i);

path.transform(trans);

path.append(sh,false);

try{

path.transform(trans.createInverse());

}catch(Exception e){System.out.println("foo");}

}

}else{

path.append(gv.getOutline(),false);

}

//gv.set

if(fatten==0){

shape = path;

}else{

// What we need is something like photoshop's expand selection.

// The following is very slow...

Area area = new Area(path);

area.add(new Area(bs.createStrokedShape(path)));

shape = area;

// This creates a disconnected outline, which isn't right,

// but much faster ;)

/*GeneralPath p2 = new GeneralPath(path);

p2.append(bs.createStrokedShape(path), false);

shape = p2;*/

}

/*if(ringed){

Area area = null;

Area comp = new Area();;

//if(shape instanceof Area)

//area = (Area)shape;

//else

area = new Area(shape);

Stroke empty = new BasicStroke(10);

comp.add(new Area(shape));

comp.add(new Area(empty.createStrokedShape(shape)));

Stroke ring = new BasicStroke(3);

area.add(new Area(ring.createStrokedShape(comp)));

shape = area;

}*/

Stroke stroke = new BasicStroke(2);

outline = stroke.createStrokedShape(shape);

end = System.currentTimeMillis();

msg = "Build time "+(end-start)+" ms";

}

Rectangle r = shape.getBounds();

//g.clearRect(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());

g.setColor(getBackground());

g.fillRect(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());

Rectangle bg = new Rectangle(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());

if(glassBG)

paintGlassEffect(g, bg, getBackground());

int x = (getWidth()-r.width)/2;

int y = (getHeight()-r.height)/2;

y -= r.y/2;

g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

g.translate(x,y);

// Show bounding box

//g.draw(r);

paintText(g);

g.translate(-x,-y);

g.setColor(getTextColor());

g.drawString(msg, 5, getHeight()-5);

}

This is the code i am using to give emboss effect. How can i give engrave effect to text or images in java?>

Atiqea at 2007-7-11 22:36:46 >

Thanks for your reply. But the problem is still there. It blured the figure. but the results are not satisfactory.

Here is the code i am trying.

public void paintComponent(Graphics g){

super.paintComponent(g);

Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;

Composite oldComp = g2d.getComposite();

g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER, 0.5f));

g.setFont(font);

g.drawImage(bkImage, x, y, null);

g.setColor(getMainColor().darker());

g.drawString(name, textX+1, textY+1);

g.setColor(getMainColor().brighter());

g.drawString(name, textX, textY);

g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

g.drawImage(topImage, x+20, y+66, null);

g.drawImage(middleImage, x+20, y+116, null);

g.drawImage(bottomImage, x+20, y+166, null);

g2d.setComposite(oldComp);

}

I think there is one more problem. Which is when engraving any text upon any image you must make text colored same as image.

Atiqea at 2007-7-11 22:36:46 >