Help with imagefttext

[corkywilliams]

I have seen examples on the web for linespacing using the imagefttext() function. Most of these are in the following type of format...

imagefttext($im, 20, 0, 0, 24, $text_color, $font, $file_text, array("linespacing" => 1));

I see that you can pass the value of "linespacing" into the function to generate how far the next new line is from the previous line.

My question is this. I am trying to change the amount of spacing between letters. Is there something like "letterspacing" that can be passed in? If not, how are you all working around an issue like this?

Thanks for all and any help that you can pass along.

[corkywilliams]

After an exhaustive search last night, it doesn't look like the GD Library has a way to do this, and most people seem to think that if/when it does, it will not work that great.

So, is everyone just taking what the font gives you? Re-writing the font to substract spacing around the letters?

Any other work arounds you can think of?