note 19222 added to function.imagettftext

Here's a hack to overcome the poor quality of the text rendered by this function on truecolor images: 1) Create a temporary palette image (with ImageCreate rather than ImageCreateTrueColor) 2) Render your text into that image 3) Use ImageJPEG to write it to disk 4) Use ImageCreateFromJPEG to load that file back - presto, your text is now truecolor and still looks great 5) Set a transparency color if need be and composite your text image onto your original truecolor image Like so: // Create paletted image... $buff = imagecreate($imagewidth, $imageheight); $background_color = ImageColorAllocate($buff, 255, 255, 255); $color = ImageColorAllocate($buff, 0, 0, 0); // Render clean text into it... ImageTTFText($buff, $fontsize, 0, $pos_x, $pos_y, $color, $font, $string); // Write it out as a JPEG... $filename = "/tmp/test_".date("U").".jpg"; ImageJPEG($buff, $filename, 100); ImageDestroy($buff); // Pull it back in from the JPEG... $buff = ImageCreateFromJPEG($filename); // Composite it onto the original image... $background_color = ImageColorAllocate($buff, 255, 255, 255); imagecolortransparent($buff, $background_color); ImageAlphaBlending($image, true); ImageCopy($image, $buff, 0, 0, 0, 0, ImageSX($image), ImageSY($image)); ImageAlphaBlending($image, false); ImageDestroy($buff); -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+19222 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+19222 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+19222