php & imagemagik or related font/tif ...

[Anon]

Hello, I'm looking for a way to use imagemagik with php ... my objective is to insert text into a .tif file with font X ... maybe you all know of a better way to do this ... anyone care to shed some light for me?

Thanks
Dan

[Anon]

If you have the GD and freetype extensions installed you can use ImageString to do something like this:

<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @ImageCreate (200, 500)
or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
ImageString ($im, 1, 5, 5, "phpwebhosting.com gd examples and tests", $text_color);

ImagePng ($im);
?>

Hope this helps!

-Greg
phpwebhosting.com