Comments on: Generate text with transparent background

By: jo

jo — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:36:30 +0000

the size line refers to fontsize twice when the secod reference should be the font not the fontsize

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:00:33 +0000

Thanks for this one. It’s useful. I did notice one bug, or I believe a bug in it.

This line:

$size = imageTTFBBox($fontSize, $angle, $fontSize, $theText);

When this was as it is it didn’t work but I changed it too:

$size = imageTTFBBox($fontSize, $angle, $font, $theText);

That fixed it.

By: daYmo

daYmo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:22:40 +0000

Hi,
Thanks very much for the tip !

For people that can’t make that script working : it’s normal.

1) There is an error Line 6 :
replace
$size = imageTTFBBox($fontSize, $angle, $fontSize, $theText);
by
$size = imageTTFBBox($fontSize, $angle, $font, $theText);

2) line 4 : you have to put the absolute path to your arial.ttf file :
$font = “/your_path/arial.ttf”;

Regards,
Damien

By: admin

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:21:21 +0000

Guess that is because of the error on row 7. Probably you don’t have the font file arial.ttf. I have not tried this code on windows, but on a linux system you usually have the fonts here: /usr/share/fonts/ or maybe in the same directory as your script.
You could try to not specify what font to use, don’t know how it’s handled but worth a try.

By: dzek

dzek — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:00:48 +0000

Great! Just what I`ve been looking for
Used just 4 lines of code, but its great anyway hehe.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:48:25 +0000

No correct. Still don’t work.

Maybe you can´t use double same parameters $fontSize in line 6.
Bud i don´t know what i must use )

By: Daithi

Daithi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:32:26 +0000

This code should work for anybody having difficulties

By: admin

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:09:12 +0000

Thanks for pointing it out! I think I have corrected it now!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:00:41 +0000

you define $font on line 4 yet call for $theFont on line 6 and then call for $font on line $15…

By: admin

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:23:20 +0000

Not really sure, but I think you should read this post: http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/06/04/imagettfbbox-could-not-findopen-font/