note 17170 added to function.imagegif

I am trying to create a gif image on the fly using text and a specific font. Is there anyway to dynamically resize the image to the size of the text paragraph? This is my code: <?php header("Content-type: image/gif"); $width = 400; $height = 400; $image = imagecreate($width, $height); $white = imagecolorallocate($image,255, 255, 255); $black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0); imagefilledrectangle($image, 0, 0, $width, $height, $black); $text = wordwrap($text, 40, "\n\r"); imagettftext($image, 24, 0, 0, 50, $white, "verdana.ttf", "$text"); //Push the completed image out. imagecolortransparent($image, $black); imagegif($image); imagedestroy($image); ?> as you can see, it creates a rectangle initially for the image, and then put the font into the rectangle. somehow, i need to make that rectangle dynamically resize to fit the text, otherwise, the words get cropped off, or i have an enormous image for two words. any ideas? thanks! carrie me@carrie.cc -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegif.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+17170 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+17170 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+17170