I have built a photoshop like program that uses ImageMagick (command line on linux) to do most of it's backend processing. Unfortunately, I am just not happy with ImageMagick's text options.
ImageMagick's Text Guru actually recommends using TeX for more advanced text generation, but unfortunately that does not offer the cool effects that I need.
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#tex
Are there any better options out there for me?