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Posted by william.oram on 08/23/07 15:01
On Aug 23, 8:58 am, Erwin Moller
<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spamyourself.com> wrote:
> william.o...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Here's a toughie for me.
>
> > Using the GD library, I want to print a word or string as an image,
> > but with some constant amount of padding around it. The text is not
> > known beforehand. In other words, something like
>
> > ________
> > | |
> > | flan |
> > |________|
>
> > I'm very new to GD, but offhand the only solution that comes to mind
> > is to create a very long general-purpose image, print the text at (x1,
> > 0), measure the word there, destroy the image, then create a second
> > image with dimensions calculated from before. That seems rather
> > sloppy. Is there a better alternative?
>
> Hi,
>
> If you use freetype2 fonts, have a look at:
> imageftbbox()
> imagefontheight()
> imagefontwidth()
>
> That should do the trick.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
Perfect. Thanks!
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