Transparent text on image?

iantresman

Is it possible to place transparent text on an image? I want to display an image of some text in a fancy typeface, but superimpose text in a plain style, so that it can be copied and pasted; a bit like what you see in some PDF files, where the page image is visiable, the overlying text is not.

Regards,
Ian Tresman

revdev

Sorry, I'm not completely sure, but maybe I can point you in the right direction. I would suggest you look at image-manipulation libraries for PHP, such as

GD: http://www.boutell.com/gd/
ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/

Hope this was of assistance.

iantresman

Thanks for that, I'll take a look.

Regards,
Ian Tresman

bokehman

If you copy and paste that will copy the image also.

iantresman

Ideally I'd like the transparent text on the image to behave as text, so people see the image, but can copy the text. See examples, at Mandarin

Regards,
Ian Tresman