Using Graphics2D to overlay text on a BufferedImage and return a BufferedImage
- by Andrew Bolster
I have checked similarly named questions, but they don't answer this use case.
Basically, I was to overlay some text (text) at a given coordinate (x,y) I have the below function in a package;
protected BufferedImage Process2(BufferedImage image){
Graphics2D gO = image.createGraphics();
gO.setColor(Color.red);
gO.setFont(new Font( "SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 12 ));
gO.drawString(this.text, this.x, this.y);
System.err.println(this.text+this.x+this.y);
return image;
}
I feel like im missing something patently obvious; every reference to Graphics2D I can find is dealing with either games or writing directly to a file but I just want a BufferedImage returned. with the overlay 'rendered'
In the current code, the image appears out the end unchanged.
Thanks!
