Simple class to create placeholder images for wireframing.

Inspired by: http://github.com/mdarby/placeholder

Requirements

• Python 2.6
• Python PIL

API Usage

# Shows the default values used
# If text is None the image size will be used as text
img = PlaceHolderImage(width, height,
                        fg_color=Color.BLACK,
                        bg_color=Color.WHITE,
                        text=None,
                        font=u'Verdana.ttf',
                        fontsize=24,
                        encoding=u'unic',
                        mode=Color.MODE,
                        fmt=u'PNG')
result_path = img.save()

# Somewhat less to type
# bg is white
# fg is black
img = PlaceHolderImage(width, height)
result_path = img.save()

Command Line Usage

python placeholder.py <width> <height> <bg_color> <txt_color> [image_text]
display $(python placeholder.py 800 600 darkgray green SOME_TEXT_MORE)