Image text modifications

[Teach]

My second question of today... 😉

I was wondering if you could me a little with this image code please.
I need to make two modifications, which I'd be really grateful if you could help me with.

1. For it to use georgia.ttf (which I have uploaded) as the TTF font of the text.
2. For the text to be antialiased (smooth)

Thanks!

     $text = "You are: $staffid"; 

// import background image 
$img = @imagecreatefromjpeg("/home/img/sigbg.jpg"); 
imagecreatetruecolor(297, 58); 
// text color 
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255); 
// add the text to the image 
imagestring($img, 2, 9, 20, $text, $textcolor); 
// date in the past, so that the image is not cached by the browser 
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); 
// tell the browser what it's about to recieve 
header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); 
// create the jpeg image 
imagejpeg($img, '', 95); 
// clean up 
imagedestroy($img); 

[bradgrafelman]

1. Instead of using [man]imagestring/man, look at using [man]imagettftext/man.

2. As to antialiasing... I'm not sure what you mean (of course, I'm no expert with images in PHP), but to turn on antialiasing for the entire image resource, check out [man]imageantialias/man. Also note that you use [man]imagecreatetruecolor/man (required to use antialiasing), but you don't actually assign the image resource returned by the function to any variable. Instead, you use the $img resource returned from the imagecreatefromjpeg() function.