Automatically add date to .gif

Question

Alright,

What Im looking for is a script that would automatically add a date to a .gif, which I can run daily as a cron job. I don't know perl very well, but It seems that Perl & Gimp might be a way to get the job done. Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can create such a script

thanks!

Answer 1

I once implemented something similar using just a shell script and the -draw option to ImageMagick's convert program.

For a slightly more advanced approach, I'd use Python and PIL, which should be a lot easier to work with than trying to script the Gimp.

Answer 2

Another option is php with the gd extension. Have a look at the manual pages for imagestring here and imagegif here.