Text Graphic Generator

Author: Eric Latham

Email: ericoliverlatham@gmail.com

Description

This project provides the functionality to generate high quality, bicolor, social-media-friendly text graphics in a simple Flask/JavaScript webapp.

Workflow

With the help of PDM and Make, managing and working within this repo are very simple.

Setting Up Development Environment

• clone the repo and cd into it
• run the command make setup to create a PDM environment with all the required Python packages installed

Testing Web App

• run the command make test to start the Flask app (app.py) in development mode
• open a browser and go to http://localhost:5000/

Implementation Details

TextFunctions.py

• contains text-processing functions to check input validity, format input, and apply automatic text-wrapping to input

GraphicFunctions.py

• assumes all image variables and parameters are either PIL Images or Numpy arrays of the RGB color model

variables.py

• is somewhat customizable if you want to change watermark files, adjust text settings, or add color templates