Duplicate modules?

I have not used TextImage, but from the description it's very different from this module. It seems the purpose of TextImage is to generate images (containing texts) for such thíng as banners, menus, buttons, etc.

This module is meant for setting the font family of the text from the server side. We all know how to do this from the client side. Right? You simply open your browser's font selection and select what is best for your eyes. Unfortunately, there are many nice fonts that users do not have or even know of. Further, there's no way for you to require users to view your text in a certain font. For example, if you use the ecard module, and you want the text to appear in a fancy wedding font. Users will see the cards in this font even if they don't have it on their computers. Or in another example, you have a poetry content type, and want to display all poems in a certain nice font. Or in another example, you want to display pulled quotes in a different font from the rest of the text. Etc.

This is what this module is for.

Another one that might be conflicting is:
http://drupal.org/project/render

Not sure where the overlap is, but it's worth investigating. I know that sun put together a framework that would make it easy to support additional libraries other than sIFR. Might save you some code to build off that? :-)

Yes, it uses font-face.

>Not sure where the overlap is, but it's worth investigating. I know that sun put together a framework that would make it easy to support additional libraries other than sIFR. Might save you some code to build off that? :-)

The goal is exactly like sIFR, but the method is different. sIFR generates flash objects from the text you want to render. So, instead of texts, you have flash. IMO, there are 2 disadvantages of this method: (1) it is very slow if you render a large amount of text (try it, you will see); practically, you can render only a small amount of text, (2) flash objects that represent fonts don't resize like fonts resize; users can't resize flash objects.

The module uses font-face to render fonts as texts *not* images or flash objects.

Sorry, what I mean is add CSS3 font-face rendering capabilities that this module does to the Dynamic Rendering module, so we save code ;-) . If you shoot tha_sun an email or something, I'm sure he'd love to help out.

+1 for adding this as a plugin to render.

vph, thanks much for all your work on this!

Just to clarify, yes there are several modules which appear to offer similar functionality:
Cufón: http://drupal.org/project/cufon
Dynamic Rendering: http://drupal.org/project/render
Facelift Image Replacement Integration: http://drupal.org/project/flir
Menuwriter: http://drupal.org/project/menuwriter (no longer maintained)
sIFR: http://drupal.org/project/sifr (no longer maintained)
Signwriter: http://drupal.org/project/signwriter
Textimage: http://drupal.org/project/textimage
Typeface - Custom Fonts: http://drupal.org/project/typeface

Each render the text as images, Flash objects, or otherwise mainpulates with JavaScript.

As far as I know what Dynamic Font Rendering does is new to Drupal.

I can't wait to check it out.

Thanks!

-NP

I'm currently maintaining the flir module, and from what I can tell this module is not a duplicate. However the name of the module is a bit ambiguous.

I think ultimately it would be ideal for this module to run as a plugin of the dynamic rendering module. But one thing I'd actually like to see happen is listed in this module #743762: @font-face support. Basically having @font-face rendering by default with automatic fallback to an image generation technique for browsers that don't support it.

http://drupal.org/project/fontyourface is getting a lot of love lately

closed.