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Write text to the image using fonts using FreeType 2
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5)
Code Examples / Notes » imagefttextmagicaltux
When compiling PHP with FreeType 2 support, you'll probably have some problems if - for example - you use debian and didn't compile freetype2 yourself... If configure fails after saying "If configure fails, try --with-xpm-dir..." you most likely have FreeType1 installed, but not freetype2 ... Do this as root : apt-get install libfreetype6-dev It took me some time to find out that apt-get install freetype2 is actually installing freetype1 ... aidan
This function is very simular to imageffttext(), you may find the information provided on its manual page helpful: http://php.net/imagettftext jwilliam
Thanks for the script! I modified it to show several fonts that I was wanting to use. I am using GD-2.0.7, FreeType-2.1.3(text rotation fix,among others), and PHP-4.2.3 and had to include the array information to get it to work. Code change follows: $fontfile="/usr/local/fonts/ttf/bookantbd.ttf"; // Waterfall of point sizes to see what Freetype 2's autohinting looks like: // for($i=4;$i<=12;$i++){ ImageFtText($image,$i,0,10,(280+$i*14),$forecolor,$fontfile, bookantbd . $i . ". " . $string, array("linespacing" => 1.0)); } John cory
Since this function is not documented, I felt it was best that I shed some light on the extrainfo parameter. You can see the full documentation at the GD reference manual: http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.33.html#gdImageStringFTEx Basically it accepts an array containing the following options as keys and an associated value: (int) flags [more info in the GD reference manual] (double/float) linespacing (int) charmap (int) hdpi (int) vdpi (string) xshow (string) fontpath My C/C++ is not very good but this is the best I can explain. Read the documentation for more information. :-) A very simple example of usage would be: <?php imagefttext( $img_pointer, 12, 0, 10, 10, [-insertsomecolour-], '/path/to/font.ttf', "THIS IS A TEST\nTHIS IS LINE 2\nTHIS IS LINE3", array('lineheight'=>2.0) ); ?> ben
If you're interested in turning off FreeType hinting, search for the following line in the gd source (gdft.c): err = FT_Load_Glyph (face, glyph_index, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT); and replace it with err = FT_Load_Glyph (face, glyph_index, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING); Recompile GD, and voìla: beauteous antialiasing. vsazel
If you want to get the best result in monochrome font rendering, change render_mode to FT_LOAD_RENDER. It's the last parameter of FT_Load_Glyph() function (in gdft.c).
eshenk
I wrote a bit of code to gather all the .ttf files in the directory with this script, and randomize them to write text on a header image for my site. The only catch is the font files have to be named 1.ttf, 2.ttf etc etc. <?php srand((double)microtime()*1234567); // Start the random gizmo $image = imagecreatefromjpeg(rand(1,exec('ls *.jpg | wc -l')) . ".jpg"); // Get a background $font = rand(1,exec('ls *.ttf | wc -l')) . ".ttf"; // Get a font $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($image,0,0,0); // Set text color $text1 = "shenko.homedns.org"; // Here is our text imagettftext($image, 50, 0, 20, 50, $textcolor, $font, $text1); // Write the text with a font header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); // Its a JPEG imagejpeg($image,'',90); // Zap it to the browser imagedestroy($image); // Memory Freeupage ?> darren
I had trouble working out how to accurately represent fonts in point sizes when constructing charts that had a user-customisable output DPI (basically, the user could specify the size of the chart in mm - or any other physical measure - and the DPI to create arbitrarily-sized charts to work properly in real printed documents). GD1 was OK as it used pixels for font rendering, but GD2 uses points, which only makes any sense if you know the DPI that it assumes when rendering text on the image surface. I have not been able to find this anywhere in this documentation but have examined the GD2 source code and it appears to assume a DPI of 96 internally. However, this can easily be customised in the GD2 source so it cannot be assumed that all PHP interpreters out there have a GD2 compiled using 96dpi internally. If it does, and you are using it to construct images whose target DPI is not 96, you can calculate the point size to supply to imageftbox() and imagefttext() like this: <?php /* 100mm x 100mm image */ $imageWidth = 100; $imageHeight = 100; /* 300 dpi image, therefore image is 1181 x 1181 pixels */ $imageDPI = 300; /* unless we do this, text will be about 3 times too small */ $realFontSize = ($fontPt * $targetDPI) / 96; ?> kagaku
I found myself in need of an align right function and found one on the imagepstext manual page. I can't imagine I'm the only person who's needed to use this, so here's a slightly modified version that works with imagefttext: <? function align_right($string, $fontfile, $imgwidth, $fontsize){ $spacing = 0; $line = array("linespacing" => $spacing); list($lx,$ly,$rx,$ry) = imageftbbox($fontsize,0,$fontfile,$string,$line); $textwidth = $rx - $lx; $imw = ($imgwidth-10-$textwidth); return $imw; } ?> 20-feb-2006 10:19
I am using php 5.1.2 on a winxp machine. I was getting into the TrueType fonts and wanted to see which ones would look best incorporated into web images. So I created the following script that prints out samples of all the TrueType fonts found in my C:\Windows\Fonts directory. The script takes only one request parameter - 'fsize'. It stands for font-size and lets you see each font in any size you wish -- I limited it to values between 5 and 48. Hope this helps someone other than me :) I apologize in advance if any of my code is not the prettiest-written php code even seen -- I have only been coding in php for the past week (I'm a perl-guy usually). <?php list($x, $y, $maxwidth) = array(0, 0, 0); $fsize = (int)$_REQUEST['fsize']; if ($fsize < 5 or $fsize > 48) $fsize = 8; header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); // don't know how wide or tall the font samples will be. // create a huge image for now, we'll copy it smaller // later when we know how large the image needs to be. $im = imagecreate(1000, 20000) or die('could not create!'); $clr_white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $clr_black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); $font_path = "C:/Windows/Fonts/"; $dh = opendir($font_path); while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== FALSE) { // we're only dealing with TTY fonts here. if (substr(strtolower($file), -4) != '.ttf') continue; $str = "Sample text for '$file'"; $bbox = imagettfbbox( $fsize, 0, "{$font_path}{$file}", $str ); $ww = $bbox[4] - $bbox[6]; $hh = $bbox[1] - $bbox[7]; imagettftext( $im, $fsize, 0, $x, $y, $clr_black, "{$font_path}{$file}", $str ); $y += $hh + 20; if ($ww > $maxwidth) $maxwidth = $ww; } closedir($dh); // ok, now we can chop off the extra space from the // 1000 x 20000 image. $im2 = imagecreate($maxwidth + 20, $y); imagecopyresized( $im2, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $maxwidth + 20, $y, $maxwidth + 20, $y ); imagejpeg($im2); imagedestroy($im); imagedestroy($im2); ?> dnf
For negative image you must add one line after the $grayColor computation: $grayColor = ~ $grayColor & 0x7FFFFFF; sebastiand
After spending the evening with some work on automatically generated images, I had the idea to switch of anti-aliasing (looking, if some font would look better that way), which turned out not to be quite so easy. Actually you have to use the negative of the desired color to switch of antialising. I include the corresponding line from my code (line split up): // USE NEGATIVE OF DESIRED COLOR TO SWITCH OF ANTI-ALIASING ImageFTText ($neuesBild,$fontsize,$fontangle,$TextPosX,$TextPosY, -$custom_fg,$fonttype,$text,array()); |
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