[Resolved] font shadow with gd?

sid

i basically just wanted to ask if anybody is aware of a function that allows to add shadow to ttf-text interted with gd.

thanks a bunch!

weekender

a font shadow is just another lot of text with a lighter colour, and slightly offset from the original text.

can't remember any gd functions, but when you place the text in the image, do it twice. Make the second one lighter, and 2 pixels right, 2 pixels down.

Weedpacket

Our Mordecai has written an image-manipulation class called Leonardo that includes text shadowing (among other things). (Article, discussion.) Probably overboard if all you want is shadowed text, but it's nice to know it's there 🙂

sid

Originally posted by weekender

can't remember any gd functions, but when you place the text in the image, do it twice. Make the second one lighter, and 2 pixels right, 2 pixels down.

thats exactly what i am doing right now - actually im using this for an outline with 4x the text rather light, offset in each direction (up/left, up/right, down/left, down/right) - like you said, it is working pretty well... i just wondered if there were any more sophisticated methods out there - thanks for sure though!

also thanks to weedpacket - ill take a look at that class!

sid

a little follow up: i wish i had found the leonardo class sooner, since it includes some functions i actually just custom wrote myself - oh well - nothings better than hands on experience i guess ;-)

[edit]i fixed the typos - this was embarrassing ;-)[/edit]

Weedpacket

Originally posted by sid
a little follow up: i wish i had found the leonardo clas sooner, since it includes sme functions i actually just custom wrote myself - oh well - nothingss better than hands on experience i guess ;-)

I know it got me thinking: "You know what else this needs...?"