== Generating Dynamic Text Images== Taken from Jacobian.org [http://www.jacobian.org/2006/jun/30/improved-text-image-view/] {{{ import md5 from django.conf import settings from django.http import (HttpResponse, HttpResponseNotModified, HTTPResponseForbidden) import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw def view_header(request, fontalias): try: fontfile = settings.DYNAMIC_FONT_ALIASES[fontalias] except: return HttpResponseForbidden("font alias not supported") if request.GET.has_key('text'): header = request.GET['text'] else: header = 'Hello world' etag = md5.new(header).hexdigest() if request.META.get("HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH") == etag: return HttpResponseNotModified() imf = ImageFont.truetype(fontfile, 20) size = imf.getsize(header) im = Image.new("RGB", size) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im) draw.text((0, 0), header, font=imf) response = HTTPResponse(mimetype="image/png") im.save(response, "PNG") response["e-tag"] = etag return response }}}