fitting text into the box

Question

on my website i allow users to create pictures with line of text they specify drawn on the picture

currently i use for that imagemagick convert - i specify svg template

Answer 1

solved by abandoning svg and doing everything with imagemagick convert and mvg template

here's the simplified script example in case anyone's pursuing something similar

script is putting an image and a title on the canvas. title is created with separate convert command, saved as temporary file and then put onto the canvas

#!/bin/sh

TEMPLATE="
push graphic-context
viewbox 0 0 600 600 
affine 1 0 0 1 0.0 0.0
push graphic-context
fill 'rgb(0,0,0)'
rectangle 0,0 600,600
pop graphic-context
push graphic-context
image Over 38,38 338,338 '%s' 
pop graphic-context
push graphic-context
image Over 36,400 529,55 '%s' 
pop graphic-context
pop graphic-context
";

#1. creating label fitting specified proportions 
#2. converting mvg template to jpeg image (and trimming it in process) 
#3. removing temp file with label

convert -size 529x55 -background black -family "Times New Roman" -gravity center -fill white label:"$2" "tmp/$1title.jpg" && printf "$TEMPLATE"  "images/$1.jpg" "tmp/$1title.jpg"  | convert mvg:- -trim +repage -bordercolor black -border 36  "images/$1converted.jpg" && rm "tmp/$1title.jpg"

#script parameters: $1 is image id, $2 is title text