Text2Gif Plugin
With this Plugin for JSPWiki you can display text as gifs - why? Because you won't show your email in a text form for example. When you display it as gif, no spam spider can catch it.
For the generation of the GIF images the ACME.jar of the ACME Laboratories is used (Freeware).
Example
{Text2gif size='14' bgcolor='white' Hello World! }
is created by the following syntax:
<code>
[{Text2gif size='14' bgcolor='white'
Hello World!
}]
</code>
Text2Gif-Plugin-Parameters
| Name | Description | Necessity |
|---|---|---|
| body | Text to be shown | required |
| align | center, left, right | optional (none) |
| fontsize | size of the base font | optional (12?) |
| width | size of the produced gif | optional (600?) |
| height | size of the produced gif | optional (200?) |
| bgcolor | color of the background | optional (white) |
| color | color of the text | optional (black) |
Installation
1. The following jars must be copied to {JSPWiki}/WEB-INF/lib:
2. The following must be added to {JSPWiki}/WEB-INF/web.xml:
<code>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DownloadJobServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
com.ecyrd.jspwiki.plugin.DownloadJobServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DownloadJobServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/downloadJob</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</code>
3. Under Linux/Unix you may enable the awt headless mode (see Headless-Mode in JDK 1.4). You can do it in two ways:
- Edit Wiki.jsp and append System.setProperty("java.awt.headless", "true"); in the init-method
- edit the catalina.sh and append CATALINA_OPTS='-Djava.awt.headless=true' at the head of the file
Source Code
The source code is part of the SBaltesPlugins.jar.
License
Text2GifPlugin itself is under the LGPL and uses freeware libraries:
Text2GifPlugin a JspWiki Plugin for visualising text as gifs.
Copyright (C) 2004 Sebastian Baltes
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.