Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone recommend a way to make the generated text : (testbutton.png) look like the text in the hand-made : one (contactusbutton.gif)? Also, since this will be a : script to auto-generate these images with user-defined : text, how can I center the text in the image (or even : in the blue rectangle)? Should I use a different : module for generating the text, or even for generating : the whole image?
Take a look at the stringTTF() method. It allows you to choose a TrueType font and returns the bounds of the string. Using the string boundaries, you might then be able to center the string in a box.
I've got this working to some extend, but I'm having a weird problem. About 1 of every 6 times I run the script, it doesn't generate the text and it sets $@ to "libgd was not build with FreeType font support" which obviously isn't true since it works the other 5 out of 6 times. Anyone know what's going on?
I think I've fixed this, too. It looks like it was some weird caching issue with Apache and mod_perl. I renamed the script and it works correctly every time now. Thank you for the suggestion to use stringTTF() or stringFT() to generate the text. I was able to use the array returned by it to center the text in the middle of the generated image. Thanks.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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