import java.awt.Color;

import java.awt.Font;

import java.awt.FontMetrics;

import java.awt.Graphics2D;

import java.awt.RenderingHints;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class TextToGraphics {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String text = "Hello";

/*

Because font metrics is based on a graphics context, we need to create

a small, temporary image so we can ascertain the width and height

of the final image

*/

BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(1, 1, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

Graphics2D g2d = img.createGraphics();

Font font = new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, 48);

g2d.setFont(font);

FontMetrics fm = g2d.getFontMetrics();

int width = fm.stringWidth(text);

int height = fm.getHeight();

g2d.dispose();

img = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

g2d = img.createGraphics();

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_COLOR_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_COLOR_RENDER_QUALITY);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_DITHERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_DITHER_ENABLE);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);

g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_STROKE_CONTROL, RenderingHints.VALUE_STROKE_PURE);

g2d.setFont(font);

fm = g2d.getFontMetrics();

g2d.setColor(Color.BLACK);

g2d.drawString(text, 0, fm.getAscent());

g2d.dispose();

try {

ImageIO.write(img, "png", new File("Text.png"));

} catch (IOException ex) {

ex.printStackTrace();

}

}

}