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GIF_text Create a GIF file to display your message
Enter the message:
Hints: $t=time; $d=date; $B=rectangle; $N=new line; $F(fontname)=switch fonts; $#nnn; = ascii code

You can ... use message options stored in a style file:
or use this form to specify the options .... (and save these options to a style file?).
Select an alphabyte font or a TTF font: (or, vu and choose a TTF font.) Optional   background and color slide

(Key): L=includes lower-case,
1=Includes numbers,
C=Color (not b/w)
and its size
(0=do not use TTF font)
Hint: if you do not use a color slide or a background, you should set the text color, background color, and transparency. 		Backgrounds

Scale the background?
Color slides

Color slide options
  Message width: and height: (in pixels) A value of 0 for either width or height means:Use as many pixels as needed
Check here if you intend to download this image.
Check here for non-verbose output

The following options are less important (if you don't fill them in, default values will be used):

Vertical Alignment (character in "character box"): Top || Middle || Bottom
Line Justification (for multiple line messages): Left || Center || Right

Width & height
scale factors

Offset the image;
place a frame around it		   Right offset
Left/Right frame 		Down offset
Top/Bottom frame

Color
slide
options
Horizontal fit:
  • Tile
  • Stretch
    		• Vertical fit:
  • Same slide for all rows
  • Tile
  • Stretch
    • Measured from (blank=left edge,
    or a space delimited pair of 0 to 1 fractions):     		Distance computation method:
    Threshold:
  • Non 0 pixels
  • Any color > 40
  • Fade avg color, 1 to 200
    		• Probability:
  • Always use
  • Increasing probability
  • Decreasing probability
    • Custom color slide specs
    # colors:
    		 RGB intensities (0.0=0, 1.0=255) (space delimited)
    Red:
    Green:
    Blue:

    Use a mask file: Scale mask (otherwise, tile)?
    Reverse mask?
    Mask threshold (pixel value)=

    Background color (6-hex-digits):, Text-color (6-hex-digits):
    Examples: 000000=black, ffffff=white, FF0000=red 00EF9d=Cyan
    Transparent color index   (0 to 255, -1 for no transparent index):

    Time Format Date Format


    Or, would you
    like to ...
    see samples of the alphabytes and backgrounds?
    run a special button generator?
    list installed alphabyte and complete fonts
    list installed color slides
    read a short description of the options?
    use the frames/javascript enabled version?
    list available TTF fonts
    list installed backgrounds