Posted by gbbulldog on 06/06/07 16:52

On 6 Jun, 05:34, -Lost <maventheextrawo...@techie.com> wrote:
> Anyone know offhand how to center a text within the bounding box of an
> image (width-wise at least) without the Freetype library?
>
> GD- or ImageMagick-specifc code would do nicely.
>
> --
> -Lost
> Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am
> kidding. No I am not.

1. Determine the width of the image.
2. Determine the width of the text, (I'm assuming you'll be outputting
text using TTF?), using imagettfbbox()
3. The left-hand position of the text should be : (image's width / 2)
- (text width / 2)

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