bold and imagettftext

[ucbones]

Cockney,

many thanks for that highly intelligent response. Sadly, I am lacking a bold version of the particular font (OCR A Extended) and have been unable to find one. I was wondering if there was a way to make the fonts bold other than using a bold version of the font. Or, if anyone could talk me through changing my TTF file from normal weight to bold, that would do...

Many thanks,

ucbones

[cockney]

You'll either have to find a bold version of the font , or create one somehow.

I just meant that there's no way of telling imagettftext (); to display text as bold. 🙂

[ucbones]

Many apologies Cockney,

sadly, I've spent nearly an hour looking for a bold font, all to no avail. Is there an easy way to save a font as itself but bold, if that makes sense?

Many thanks,

ucbones

[cockney]

I've got ocr_ab.ttf which must be very simlar. I'll put it on a server if you want to download.

here you go, if you want to try it

http://www.webdream-solutions.ie/downloads/OCR_AB.zip

[ucbones]

thanks, that would be great

[cockney]

http://www.webdream-solutions.ie/downloads/OCR_AB.zip

[ucbones]

Cockney,

thanks, not quite right, but many thanks anyway... still looking for a way to turn a font into bold... anyone?

ucbones

[crosbystillsnas]

have a look at mordecai's article here... it's really informing.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/cash20030526.php3

maybe it helps to outline the text in the same color as the text color, you can find on page 3 or somewhere...

[ucbones]

tried that, didn't look too good, now trying http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10243510

[calfordmath]

I know this discussion is 17 years old! I just wanted to share a workaround. I was using my own handwriting as a font (created using Windows' FontMaker) which is very faint by default. To make it bold, I simply imagettftext twice, the first time a single pixel to the left and up from the second time.

[redcarpet]

Hi @calfordmath - what a great thinking-out-the-box method - I tried and it works really well - thanks.
Now, can you think up a way of making it italic. (I'm only joking!) :¬)

[Weedpacket]

redcarpet
I know you're joking but...
It gives slanted text, not proper italics (but then the above just gives a heavier weight, not a proper bold font), but...

Write the text into a temporary image, apply a shear transform (imageaffine, maybe using imageaffinematrixget to build the transformation matrix) that slides the top of the image to the right, and copy the result into the destination image.