Image creation with fonts...

[dawson1323]

Looking for some help creating an image or editing an image with text generated in php w/o using the default font.

So the question is how do you load a font. I have found some of the functions that should work, but they don't. Maybe I need to add something to php?

thnx,

-D

[barand]

I knew I'd seen something like this before so I searched the forums for you.

Anyway, the credit for this code goes to 'tablex'.

<?php 
$imagine = imagecreatefromjpeg("http://www.site.com/remote.jpg"); 
$fontloc ="/home/user/map/verdana.ttf"; 
$red = imagecolorallocate($imagine,255,0,0); 
$blabla = imagettftext($imagine,11,32,115,32,$red,$fontloc," bla bla bla"); 
$blabla2 = imagettftext($imagine,11,75,115,75,$red,$fontloc,"$HTTP_USER_AGENT"); 
$blabla3 = imagettftext($imagine,11,120,115,120,$red,$fontloc
,"$REMOTE_ADDR"); 
imagejpeg($imagine); 
imagedestroy($imagine); 
?>

I think you need gd2 library for the text functions used here.

hth

[timandkitty]

I have a jpeg button script that works great with the default fonts, but try "arial", "arial.ttf", "/arial.ttf", "../arial.ttf", "/home/user/map/arial.ttf" or anything even vaguely similar and it's hopeless... all I see is red-X boxes.

I tried the above script as well, with my own image, and it likewise failed (red-X boxes).

We have the latest GD installed, as well as the latest php, and T1lib.

Do I need to LOAD fonts onto the server? Isn't T1lib a font "LIBRARY"? Doesn't that mean it comes with fonts?

Do I need to load fonts onto the server? How do I load fonts onto the server? Where will they go? How do I call them? Who am I? Why am I here?

Any help would be really great!!!

<?php
    header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
    $string = $_GET['text'];
    $im     = imagecreatefromjpeg("button1.jpg");
    $red = imagecolorallocate($im, 102, 0, 0);
    $px     = (imagesx($im) - 7.5 * strlen($string)) / 2;

//  imagestring($im, 3, $px, 9, $string, $red);

imagettftext ($im, 20, 0, $px, 29, $red, "/arial.ttf", $string);

imagejpeg($im,'',100);
imagedestroy($im);
?>