On Monday 17 March 2008 09:25:36 Jochem Maas wrote: > nihilism machine schreef: > > I am trying to render an 8 pixel pixel font without anti aliasing to > > look crisp (silkscreen) in 8pt with gd. the font is huge and ugly: > > > > <?php > > // Set the content-type > > header("Content-type: image/png"); > > > > // Create the image > > $im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30); > > > > // Create some colors > > $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); > > $grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128); > > $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); > > imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white); > > > > // The text to draw > > $text = 'Testing...'; > > // Replace path by your own font path > > $font = 'silkscreen.ttf'; > > > > // Add some shadow to the text > > imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text); > > > > // Add the text > > imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text); > > > > // Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg() > > imagepng($im); > > imagedestroy($im); > > ?> > > > > > > -- any ideas? > > don't post twice. I recon he didn't. This list has the tendancy to send double posts from time to time. > use '8' instead of '20' for the fontsize. -- --- Børge Holen http://www.arivene.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php