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in thread Help with GD text

Thanks for replying... I made it harder by not stating in advance that I am using my own true type font that is on my server. I don't think I can draw the image and paste it together, as I already have a background image that I am slamming this text image on to. I will be using the string up, could you tell me how to rotate the text to any angle I like ? I need the -90, I suppose, as I need to have the right hand side text go from top to bottom and face to the right. Any ideas ?

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Re^3: Help with GD text
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 18, 2011 at 07:09 UTC
    could you tell me how to rotate the text to any angle I like ?

    See the documentation for  $image->stringFT( fgcolor, fontname, ptsize, angle, x, y, string ) ...

    The arguments are as follows: fgcolor Color index to draw the string in fontname A path to the TrueType (.ttf) font file or a font pattern +. ptsize The desired point size (may be fractional) angle The rotation angle, in radians (positive values rotate co +unter clockwise) x,y X and Y coordinates to start drawing the string string The string itself If successful, the method returns an eight-element list giving the bou +ndaries of the rendered string: @bounds[0,1] Lower left corner (x,y) @bounds[2,3] Lower right corner (x,y) @bounds[4,5] Upper right corner (x,y) @bounds[6,7] Upper left corner (x,y)

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      Thanks kind sir, I will look into that.