The original version of II supported a redirect to the Google Chart API for small images. I took out the support because:
- It wouldn't work with JPG, only PNG
- I couldn't get the vertical centering to work
However, Google Charts now supports GraphViz chart type which can solve the #2 problem easily. For example:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=gv&chs=300x300&chl=digraph{%22hello\nthere%22[shape=plaintext,%20fontsize=10,%20fontcolor=blue];}
There are currently a couple problems:
- GraphViz is experimental
- Only supports 'point' sizes for fonts, rather than pixels
- Colors seem to need to be a name and #hex values aren't working