using the imagetfftext() function

dsaba

Sorry don't want to offend anyone by posting a link to another help site, but the reason I did it was because its a very long post, with pictures and several pieces of code, and I don't want to lose all the formatting I put on it in the last thread

Its a serious problem, and I really need the help though 🙂
thank you, please read the link below and respond here

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,133435.0.html

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bpat1434

Are you sure you did the hex to decimal conversion right?

I'm also guessing you saw this:

I found this line a little confusing:

"May include decimal numeric character references (of the form: &#8364😉 to access characters in a font beyond position 127."

I was using a font that had apostrophes and quotes stored in a non-standard position, and so they were being rendered as spaces by imagettftext. This line seemed to suggest a solution, but it took a while to figure it out.

Turns out, a "decimal numeric character reference" is a decimal conversion of the hex value of the unicode position of the character you want. For a while I was trying ASCII positions (I knew the ALT+ code for typing the character I needed in Windows).

In the Windows XP character map, the unicode positions are shown as U+2018 or U+201C, etc. Ignore the U+ and convert that hex number to decimal, and then stick that in your text string with the &# on the front and ; on the end, and pass it to imagettftext.