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Customized HTML clouds for embedding

It’s now easier than ever to customize the size and look of your TagCrowd text clouds when embedding them in HTML web pages and blog posts.

You’ll now find a new “CUSTOMIZE” section near the top of the HTML Embed code where you can customize some of the CSS styles to suit the style of your webpage. Custom styles include font and font size, overall cloud size, margins, padding, borders and background color.

In the near future we’ll introduce controls for changing the color and fonts without having to edit CSS.

(As always, you can edit the CSS that lies outside the customize section, though it’s advanced and we can’t provide support for that.)

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Save clouds as PDF

I’m pleased to release a long-requested feature. You can now save your text clouds in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. That means they are scalable for printing at any size. You’ll get a letter-sized document that you can scale to your own needs.

I’ve also streamlined the interface to make it easy to save your cloud in one of three formats:

  1. HTML embed (easy insert into your webpages)
  2. printable/full screen (good for creating jpg/gif/png images of your clouds for websites and docs)
  3. PDF (ideal for printing large or small, email attachments, reports)

I’m planning on adding the option to create both landscape and portrait PDFs.

As with any new feature, post questions or comments on this blog post.

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Raised file size limits

Today we’re releasing a feature that has been highly requested, especially by those who do research and want to do visual analysis of long transcripts, survey responses, etc.

Raised file size limits. After some code wizardry, you can now input very large text files into TagCrowd using the “Upload a File” method. The limit is 6 megabytes — larger than the complete works of Shakespeare.

Go big.