GD and text formatting

[lovejoy]

Hi

I've been looking into PHP's gd functions and noticed there seems to be no way to format text with bold, italics, or underlines. Is this by design, or have I missed something? I'm thinking the only way I can do this is by using the italic or bold versions of the true-type font of my choice. But I wish the gd had some way to pick out substrings in a string and apply bold or italics to them. There is at least one component for ColdFusion that lets you do just that!

Does anyone know how to do this with php, or at least have an idea why the designers of gd passed up on this functionality?

Thanks!

rich

[barand]

There is this function [man]imagepsslantfont[/man].

I haven't used but I assume you could italicize with it