Re: How to print nice looking text on an image?

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:32, Kevin Stone wrote: > I am producing a script that writes text onto a JPEG image to create > custom printable gift certificates for an online store. The basics of > the scripts are straight forward. However I found that the > imagestring() function produces absolutely horrible looking pixelized > text and on these gift certificates looks are important. I attempted to > employ the imagepstext() family of functions but they do not appear to > be installed on this account (it's a shared server), I'm getting "call > to undefined function" errors. > > So my question is; Is there any other way to produce good looking > anti-aliased text on an image? I'd appreciate any information, classes > and links to guides you can point me to. Using imagettftext() would be the easiest. As the lastest versions of PHP are bundled with GD *and* have native support for TrueType fonts it really isn't too difficult for your host to recompile PHP to enable such support. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard */