Posted by william.oram on 08/23/07 13:51

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?

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