Re: SGML Text Embedded

David M. Seaman (mailto:dms8f%ETEXT.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU@wuvmd.bitnet)
Wed, 8 Feb 1995 14:26:29 -0500

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Date:         Wed, 8 Feb 1995 14:26:29 -0500
From: "David M. Seaman" <mailto:dms8f%ETEXT.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU@wuvmd.bitnet>
Subject:      Re: SGML Text Embedded
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

>> Bibliotheque Bajazzo <mailto:arthur@XS4ALL.NL> wrote:
>> >>Can some one please tell me how i can put a txt tag into a jpeg image?
>> >>wich software can i use for that?

>> Depending on whether you can to super-impose the text on the original image
>> or you just want to associate the text with the image as a tag in the header.

>> [a.] Super-imposed on the image. For this we can use the example of
>> Picture Publisher that Irina pointed out. It has a text editor that lets one add
>> text to the image .... which means that this text gets imposed on the
>> image as an object super-imposed on the image and takes on the resolution
>> of the original image that one is pasting on. Most popular image editors
>> let you do it.

The point of my original posting was of course not to superimpose sgml text onto the visible surface of the image, where it would be ugly and unsearchable, but to add it internally to the file.

David Seaman Electronic Text Center University of Virginia