generating image with greek text

[melsi]

Hello, I am using imagestring to generate buttons, would also like to use
also Greek. Searching the net, I have found that I have to use imagepsencondfont.
But this function requires to compile php myself with a specific parameter and
this is enough to make me forget about it. Has any body ever listened of an other

easier method.

Thank you in advance!

[drew010]

if you have ttf support you can use a font that has a greek character set. you'll just have to figure out which english keys map to which greek keys.

[melsi]

Yesss! This is it. I used this function: imagettftext, downloaded a .ttf archive from the internet and now I can write in english and greek are displayed. Making a function to decide wich english lettets are assigned to the greek ones is now just a PIECE OF CAKE. I cant't
belive that I have it.

Thank you very a lot!!!

🙂

[melsi]

And an other soloution for them who may be interested. This allows to use imagestring that draws an image-string of great quality
(imagettftext cannot give that good quality) and is said to more fast that ((imagettftext).
This is how it goes:

1. Download the font-file to gdf-file converter from http://www.philiplb.de (thanks to Philip Alibi).

2. Set the lanuage you prefer, let's say Greek - I have only tried it with Greek, as your default lanugage
   from 'control panel'=> 'Regional and Lanuage Options'=>etc. This way the system will load some other font
   files, wich will contain, Greek let's say, characters you want after english characters. The small conveter
   wich uses these files to produce the .gdf, allows you now to produce any .gdf you like.

   Note: Most fonts like, Times, Arial etc, will produce .gdf which will draw strings like this:
   H e l l o, instead of Hello. But luckily others like, courier, courier new, fixedsys etc, will be okay.

3. After your produce the .gdf you like, you just put imageloadfont before imagestring. It
   goes like this:

etc
$font = imageloadfont("Lucida Console.gdf");
imagestring($im, $font, 4, 4, "My Text in Greek: Ãåéá óáò, öéëáñÜêéá!", $white);

etc