how to generate curved text label

[secondmouse]

Greetings All,
I am writing a gui program that generates a simple cd/dvd label which needs to be curved. I can use PIL to generate straight labels with no problem but I don't know how (or maybe PIL is not capable of this kind of task) to generate curved text label. Does anyone have experience in this. I can program with C/C++, python so the solution doesn't have to be restricted to python only.

p.s. the software that I am trying to write would be similar to
LightScribe - Downloads - Linux

[GNU-Fan]

Hi,

the ImageMagick (mind the spelling) toolkit has many image editing functions with APIs for many languages.

[secondmouse]

Thanks. Will check on that.

[secondmouse]

ImageMagick does rock! I can even create a complete circled text by using just covert command (installation of ImageMagick is required), for example:

convert -pointsize 32 -background lightblue \
           -fill navy label:"User: abc    Date: 12/3/2012" \
           -virtual-pixel background  -distort Arc 340 \
           font_circle.jpg

Ref:
Font Effects -- IM v6 Examples
Distorting -- IM v6 Examples