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and would LIKE to have a $im->stringDOWN equivalent,

There is no such animal for bit-mapped fonts.

If you have a build of GD that based on a build of libgd that includes FreeType font support, then you can use stringFT() methods to rotate text to any angle you like.
Or, you could draw the string up in a separate (sized) image, use the rotate180() method to get the down written text and then the copy() method to blit it into the target image.
The problem would be determining the size of draw text. The bit-mapped fonts support doesn't seem to have any mechanism for determining the bounds of the drawn text.

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In reply to Re: Help with GD text by BrowserUk
in thread Help with GD text by JimDuyer

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