Rendertext is a Django app for using custom fonts on a web page for headings and the like without the use of Photoshop or Flash.
It does so by dynamically creating images out of text snippets. Both PNG and GIF output is currently supported.
Usage is simple. Rendertext provides the template filter rendertext which can be used like this: {{ myvar|rendertext:"grunge" }} to show myvar rendered with the font "grunge".
You can easily configure size, color and rotations. For instance, {{ myvar|rendertext:"grunge,16,#ff0000,45" }} would show the text in size 16 with color red rotated 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
Behind the scenes, django-rendertext checks if the image already has been rendered. If not, the font is loaded, a new image is generated and saved to disk. Then an
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