Re: Hey, If anyone can help me with this at all, I would really appreciate it...

On Sunday 15 December 2002 06:31, Ryan Smaglik wrote: First, please use a _descriptive_ subject. Something which gives people an idea of what your post is about. > I got a generic ³text to png on the fly² script which works fine but I want > to change it so that the image only the size of the text. (so the text has > no border, or padding around it) For and example of what I want to do check > out: http://www.spoono.com/font/?string=This is what i want to > do&.png > I have the script: > <? > > Header("Content-type: image/png"); > > if(!isset($s)){$s=8;} > > $size = > imagettfbbox($s,0,"/home/xelerix/public_html/font/fonts/04B_03__.TTF",$text >) ; > > $dx = abs($size[2]-$size[0]); > > $dy = abs($size[5]-$size[3]); > > $xpad=9; > > $ypad=9; By their very name, I would guess these two values are used as padding to give a border around the text. Try removing them. > $im = imagecreate($dx+$xpad,$dy+$ypad); > > $bg = ImageColorAllocate($im, 102,102,102); > > $white = ImageColorAllocate($im, 255,255,255); > > ImageTTFText($im, $s, 0, (int)($xpad/2), $dy+(int)($ypad/2), $white, > "/home/xelerix/public_html/font/fonts/04B_03__.TTF", $text); > > imagepng($im); > > ImageDestroy($im); > > ?> -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* "This isn't brain surgery; it's just television." - David Letterman */