imagettftext

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imagettftext — 用 TrueType 字体向图像写入文本

说明

imagettftext ( resource $image , float $size , float $angle , int $x , int $y , int $color , string $fontfile , string $text ) : array

使用 TrueType 字体将 指定的 text 写入图像。

参数

image

由图象创建函数(例如imagecreatetruecolor())返回的图象资源。

size

字体的尺寸，单位：点（磅）。

angle

角度制表示的角度，0 度为从左向右读的文本。更高数值表示逆时针旋转。例如 90 度表示从下向上读的文本。

x

由 x，y 所表示的坐标定义了第一个字符的基本点（大概是字符的左下角）。这和 imagestring() 不同，其 x，y 定义了第一个字符的左上角。例如 "top left" 为 0, 0。

y

Y 坐标。它设定了字体基线的位置，不是字符的最底端。

color

颜色索引。使用负的颜色索引值具有关闭防锯齿的效果。见 imagecolorallocate()。

fontfile

是想要使用的 TrueType 字体的路径。

根据 PHP 所使用的 GD 库的不同，当 fontfile 没有以 / 开头时则 .ttf 将被加到文件名之后并且会在库定义字体路径中尝试搜索该文件名。

当使用的 GD 库版本低于 2.0.18 时，一个空格字符 而不是分号将被用来作为不同字体文件的"路径分隔符"。不小心使用了此特性将会导致一条警告信息：Warning: Could not find/open font。对受影响的版本来说唯一解决方案就是将字体移动到不包含空格的路径中去。

很多情况下字体都放在脚本的同一个目录下。下面的小技巧可以减轻包含的问题。

<?php
// Set the enviroment variable for GD
putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));

// Name the font to be used (note the lack of the .ttf extension)
$font = 'SomeFont';
?>

text

UTF-8 编码的文本字符串。

可以包含十进制数字化字符表示（形式为：&#8364;）来访问字体中超过位置 127 的字符。UTF-8 编码的字符串可以直接传递。

命名实体，比如 &copy; 是不支持的。可以考虑使用 html_entity_decode() 来解码命名实体为 UTF-8 字符。 （自 PHP 5.0.0 开始 html_entity_decode() 开始支持）

如果字符串中使用的某个字符不被字体支持，一个空心矩形将替换该字符。

返回值

返回一个含有 8 个单元的数组表示了文本外框的四个角，顺序为坐下角，右下角，右上角，左上角。这些点是相对于文本的而和角度无关，因此"左上角"指的是以水平方向看文字时其左上角。

更新日志

版本 说明
5.2.0 It is now possible to specify an hexadecimal entity in text.

范例

Example #1 imagettftext() 例子

本例中的脚本将生成一个白色的 400x30 像素 PNG 图像，其中有黑色（带灰色阴影）Arial 字体写的"Testing..."。

<?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 = 'arial.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);
?>

以上例程的输出类似于：

例子输出：imagettftext()

注释

Note:

本函数同时需要 GD 库和 » FreeType 库。.

参见

User Contributed Notes

badrou14 at yahoo dot fr 24-Apr-2021 03:49
for windows you can use this code thanks to Ohmycode
 the link of his solution : https://ohmycode.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/imagettftext-gdfontpath-et-ttf-sous-windows/
<?php

$font = realpath(".")."\\arial.ttf";
 

$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
 

$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);
 

imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, "coucou");
?>
simbiat at bk dot ru 02-May-2015 02:15
Another way to wrap and center using wordwrap and learning the number of lines in the result of that wordwrap

<?php

$text="privet privet privet privet privet privet2 privet2 privet2 privet2 privet2 privet3";
$text=wordwrap($text, 35, "\n", TRUE);

//setting the image header in order to proper display the image
header("Content-Type: image/png");
//try to create an image
$im = @imagecreate(460, 215)
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
//set the background color of the image
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);
//set the color for the text
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
//adf the string to the image

$font = "verdana.ttf";
$font_size = 20;
$angle = 0;

$splittext = explode ( "\n" , $text );
$lines = count($splittext);

foreach ($splittext as $text) {
    $text_box = imagettfbbox($font_size,$angle,$font,$text);
    $text_width = abs(max($text_box[2], $text_box[4]));
    $text_height = abs(max($text_box[5], $text_box[7]));
    $x = (imagesx($im) - $text_width)/2;
    $y = ((imagesy($im) + $text_height)/2)-($lines-2)*$text_height;
    $lines=$lines-1;
    imagettftext($im, $font_size, $angle, $x, $y, $text_color, $font, $text);
}

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
suyog at suyogdixit dot com 30-Oct-2013 10:46
For your general edification: The following drop-in function will place a block of fully justified text onto a GD image. It is a little CPU heavy, so I suggest caching the output rather than doing it on-the-fly.

Arguments:

$image - the GD handle of the target canvas
$size - text size
$angle - slope of text (does not work very well), leave at 0 for horizontal text
$left - no. of pixels from left to start block
$top - no. of pixels from top to start block
$color - handle for colour (imagecolorallocate result)
$font - path to .ttf font
$text - the text to wrap and justify
$max_width - the width of the text block within which the text should be wrapped and fully justified
$minspacing - the minimum number of pixels between words
$linespacing - a multiplier of line height (1 for normal spacing; 1.5 for line-and-a-half etc.)

eg.
$image = ImageCreateFromJPEG( "sample.jpg" );
$cor = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
$font = 'arial.ttf';
$a = imagettftextjustified($image, 20, 0, 50, 50, $color, $font, "Shree", 500, $minspacing=3,$linespacing=1);
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($image,NULL,100);

function imagettftextjustified(&$image, $size, $angle, $left, $top, $color, $font, $text, $max_width, $minspacing=3,$linespacing=1)
{
$wordwidth = array();
$linewidth = array();
$linewordcount = array();
$largest_line_height = 0;
$lineno=0;
$words=explode(" ",$text);
$wln=0;
$linewidth[$lineno]=0;
$linewordcount[$lineno]=0;
foreach ($words as $word)
{
$dimensions = imagettfbbox($size, $angle, $font, $word);
$line_width = $dimensions[2] - $dimensions[0];
$line_height = $dimensions[1] - $dimensions[7];
if ($line_height>$largest_line_height) $largest_line_height=$line_height;
if (($linewidth[$lineno]+$line_width+$minspacing)>$max_width)
{
$lineno++;
$linewidth[$lineno]=0;
$linewordcount[$lineno]=0;
$wln=0;
}
$linewidth[$lineno]+=$line_width+$minspacing;
$wordwidth[$lineno][$wln]=$line_width;
$wordtext[$lineno][$wln]=$word;
$linewordcount[$lineno]++;
$wln++;
}
for ($ln=0;$ln<=$lineno;$ln++)
{
$slack=$max_width-$linewidth[$ln];
if (($linewordcount[$ln]>1)&&($ln!=$lineno)) $spacing=($slack/($linewordcount[$ln]-1));
else $spacing=$minspacing;
$x=0;
for ($w=0;$w<$linewordcount[$ln];$w++)
{
imagettftext($image, $size, $angle, $left + intval($x), $top + $largest_line_height + ($largest_line_height * $ln * $linespacing), $color, $font, $wordtext[$ln][$w]);
$x+=$wordwidth[$ln][$w]+$spacing+$minspacing;
}
}
return true;
}
John Conde 01-Nov-2010 10:17
If you want to create a paragraph you will need to break your text up into lines and then place each line individually one below the next.

Here's a basic example of how to do that:

<?php
// Basic font settings
$font ='./times.ttf';
$font_size = 15;
$font_color =  0x000000

// Text to be placed as a paragraph
$text = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer non nunc lectus. Curabitur hendrerit bibendum enim dignissim tempus. Suspendisse non ipsum auctor metus consectetur eleifend. Fusce cursus ullamcorper sem nec ultricies. Aliquam erat volutpat. Vivamus massa justo, pharetra et sodales quis, rhoncus in ligula. Integer dolor velit, ultrices in iaculis nec, viverra ut nunc.';

// Break it up into pieces 125 characters long
$lines = explode('|', wordwrap($text, 115, '|'));

// Starting Y position
$y = 513;

// Loop through the lines and place them on the image
foreach ($lines as $line)
{
    imagettftext($image, $font_size, 0, 50, $y, $font_color, $font, $line);

    // Increment Y so the next line is below the previous line
    $y += 23;
}

?>
JohnB 28-Feb-2010 11:58
Just in case you were--like me--unaware of this, in Windows, ttf fonts don't necessarily antialias at all font sizes. Arial appears to work at all sizes but Calibri, for example, only antialiases at a point size of 8 and then at all sizes 16 and up. Not only that but at fonts sizes like 10 and 12 characters don't print at the expected angle: the characters are all printed upright on an angled baseline.
web at evanreeves dot com 22-May-2009 12:50
I was having trouble trying to render non antialiased text using a pixel font. The tips about setting a negative value for the color are valid, but I was still having trouble with the text I was trying to render because it was black. I discovered that if I changed the imagecolorallocate() function from:

$color = imagecolorallocate($base, 0, 0, 0);

to

$color = imagecolorallocate($base, 1, 1, 1); (near black)

and then used the negative value for the color in imagettftext(), it would work properly. The difference is that my first implementation set $color = 0. Obviously, you can't have $color = -0, it made no difference. When I switched to (1,1,1) it became $color = 1 which I could take a negative value for.
philip at webdesco dot com 29-Apr-2009 05:51
Hi,
for the dummies (like myself) if you are having problems including your font file, prefix the file name with ./

On my development server the following worked fine
$myfont = "coolfont.ttf";

on my hosting server the only way i could get the font to work was as follows
$myfont = "./coolfont.ttf";

hope this helps someone out!
ben at spooty dot net 11-Mar-2009 06:40
Here's a simple function to wrap text going into an image. It'll wrap onto as many lines as it needs to, but $angle has to be zero. The $width parameter is the width of the image.

<?php
function wrap($fontSize, $angle, $fontFace, $string, $width){
   
    $ret = "";
   
    $arr = explode(' ', $string);
   
    foreach ( $arr as $word ){
   
        $teststring = $ret.' '.$word;
        $testbox = imagettfbbox($fontSize, $angle, $fontFace, $teststring);
        if ( $testbox[2] > $width ){
            $ret.=($ret==""?"":"\n").$word;
        } else {
            $ret.=($ret==""?"":' ').$word;
        }
    }
   
    return $ret;
}
?>
s.pynenburg _at_ gm ail dotcom 07-Aug-2008 07:31
I had an image generator where the user could position where they wanted the text to begin - however it kept going off the side of an image. So I made this basic function: it measures if the inputted text and x-position will cause the string to go off the edge, and if so, it will fit as much as it can on the first line, then go down to the next one.
Limitations:
-It only performs this once (i.e. it won't split into three lines)
-I'm pretty sure it won't work with angled text.

<?PHP

function imagettftextwrap($im, $size, $angle, $x_pos, $y_pos, $color, $font, $instr)
{
    $box = @imagettfbbox($size, 0, $font, $instr);
    $width = abs($box[4] - $box[0]);
    $height = abs($box[3] - $box[5]);
    $overlap = (($x_pos + $width) - imagesx($im));
    if($overlap > 0) //if the text doesn't fit on the image
    {
        $chars = str_split($instr);
        $str = "";
        $pstr = "";
        for($m=0; $m < sizeof($chars); $m++)
        {
            $bo = imagettfbbox($fsize1, 0, $font1, $str);
            $wid = abs($bo[4] - $bo[0]);
            if(($x_pos + $wid) < imagesx($im)) //add one char from the string as long as it's not overflowing
            {
                $pstr .= $chars[$m];
                $bo2 = imagettfbbox($fsize1, 0, $font1, $pstr);
                $wid2 = abs($bo2[4] - $bo2[0]);
                if(($x_pos + $wid2) < imagesx($im))
                {
                    $str .= $chars[$m];
                }   
                else
                {
                    break;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                break;
            }
        }
        $restof = "";
        for($l=$m; $l < sizeof($chars); $l++)
        {
            $restof .= $chars[$l]; //add the rest of the string to a new line
        }
        imagettftext($im, $size, $angle, $x_pos, $y_pos, $color, $font, $str); // print out the smaller line
        imagettftext($im, $size, $angle, 0, $y_pos + $height, $color, $font, $restof); //and the rest of it
    }
    else
    {
        imagettftext($im, $size, $angle, $x_pos, $y_pos, $color, $font, $instr); //otherwise just do normally
    }

}

?>
Valentijn de Pagter 16-May-2008 10:13
If you're looking for easy text alignment, you need to use the imagettfbbox() command. When given the correct parameters, it will return the boundaries of your to-be-made text field in an array, which will allow you to calculate the x and y coordinate that you need to use for centering or aligning your text.

A horizontal centering example:

<?php

$tb = imagettfbbox(17, 0, 'airlock.ttf', 'Hello world!');

?>

$tb would contain:

Array
(
    [0] => 0 // lower left X coordinate
    [1] => -1 // lower left Y coordinate
    [2] => 198 // lower right X coordinate
    [3] => -1 // lower right Y coordinate
    [4] => 198 // upper right X coordinate
    [5] => -20 // upper right Y coordinate
    [6] => 0 // upper left X coordinate
    [7] => -20 // upper left Y coordinate
)

For horizontal alignment, we need to substract the "text box's" width { $tb[2] or $tb[4] } from the image's width and then substract by two.

Saying you have a 200px wide image, you could do something like this:

<?php

$x = ceil((200 - $tb[2]) / 2); // lower left X coordinate for text
imagettftext($im, 17, 0, $x, $y, $tc, 'airlock.ttf', 'Hello world!'); // write text to image

?>

This'll give you perfect horizontal center alignment for your text, give or take 1 pixel. Have fun!
damititi at gmail dot com 22-Apr-2008 01:21
First of all, thanks sk89q for the func! it was exactly I was looking for.

I made a change. Depending on the letter, the text were incorrect vertical aligned.
I replace the line:
                $line_height = $dimensions[1] - $dimensions[7];
for the following:
                $line_height = $size+4;

No matter if mama or jeje is written, the vertical position will be the same.
llewellyntd at gmail dot com 12-Mar-2008 03:27
Hi All,

I struggled for moths to do a decent text warp with GD lib. Here is the code that I made use of:

<?php
//word wrap
$warpText = wordwrap($text, 30, "\n");
//display text
imagettftext($image, $fontSize, 0, $x, $y, $fontColor, $font, $warpText);
?>

Hope this helps somebody.

Cheers
m0r1arty at mail dot ru 13-Feb-2008 10:50
Sorry my English.
I have trouble with using imagettftext under Windows.
I can't used short name of fonts(example "arial","arialbd.ttf" etc). PHP say what not find this font.
Manipulation with environment GDFONTPATH lost.
This is my solution
<?php
$dir=opendir('./font/');//directory with fonts
if($dir)
    while($f=readdir($dir)){
        if(preg_match('/\.ttf$/',$f)){
            $font=explode('.',$f);
            define($font[0],realpath('./font/'.$f));
        }
    }
if($dir)
    closedir($dir);
?>
Directory "font" have two file: arial.ttf and arialbd.ttf
Now one can using constant font name by calling imagettftext:
imagettftext($img,12,0,25,28,$color,arialbd,'some text');
matt at mmkennedy dot net 17-Jan-2008 07:11
For anyone attempting to print black barcodes, and trying to turn of anti-aliasing, remember that -1 * [0,0,0] is 0, not -0.
denis at reddodo dot com 24-Dec-2007 06:05
Small but very dangerous bug in function ttfWordWrappedText, written by waage, just try ttfWordWrappedText("aaaaa\naa",4) and your script will run into endless loop.
You can fix it with code below:
<?php
    function ttfWordWrappedText_fixed($text, $strlen = 8) {
    $text = urldecode($text);
    $text = explode("\n", $text);
    $i = 0;
    foreach($text as $text)
    {
        while(strlen($text) > $strlen  && strstr($text, ' ') !== FALSE) {
           $startPoint = strpos($text, ' ');
           $line[$i][] =substr($text,0,$startPoint); 
           $text = trim(strstr($text, ' '));
        }
        $line[$i][] = trim($text);
        }
        $line[$i][] = trim($text);
        $i++;
    }
  
    return $line;
}
?>
better solutions is to check input text for lines longer than needed wrap point.
denis at reddodo dot com 24-Dec-2007 05:46
Small but very dangerous bug in function ttfWordWrappedText, written by waage, just try ttfWordWrappedText("aaaaa\naa",4) and your script will run into endless loop.
You can fix it with code below:
<?php
    function ttfWordWrappedText_fixed($text, $strlen = 8) {
    $text = urldecode($text);
    $text = explode("\n", $text);
  
    $i = 0;
    foreach($text as $text)
    {
        while(strlen($text) > $strlen && stristr($text, ' ') !== FALSE) {
           $startPoint = $strlen - 1;
           while(substr($text, $startPoint, 1) != " ") {
                $startPoint--;
           }
           $line[$i][] = trim(substr($text, 0, $startPoint));
           $text = substr($text, $startPoint);
        }
        $line[$i][] = trim($text);
        $i++;
    }
  
    return $line;
}
?>
better solutions is to check input text for lines longer than needed wrap point.
dotpointer 09-Dec-2007 04:40
For those trying to disable the font smoothing or font cleartype:ing, take a look at the color parameter for this function. The correct word for what you're looking for is antialiasing.
Anonymous 16-Nov-2007 04:14
Just to comment on Sohel Taslims great function...
if anyone needs to add BACKGROUND TRANSPARENCY to this kind of function (which almost does everyone one would want already) then add

$bg_color = imagecolorat($im,1,1);
imagecolortransparent($im, $bg_color);

ABOVE the "if($L_R_C == 0){ //Justify Left"  line
waage 07-Nov-2007 07:31
I had some issues trying to get both word wrapping and new line detection but with some of the help from the comments below i got this. (thanks to jwe for the main part of the code here)

<?php
function ttfWordWrappedText($text, $strlen = 38) {
    $text = urldecode($text);
    $text = explode("\n", $text);
   
    $i = 0;
    foreach($text as $text)
    {
        while(strlen($text) > $strlen) {
           $startPoint = $strlen - 1;
           while(substr($text, $startPoint, 1) != " ") {
                $startPoint--;
           }
           $line[$i][] = trim(substr($text, 0, $startPoint));
           $text = substr($text, $startPoint);
        }
        $line[$i][] = trim($text);
        $i++;
    }
   
    return $line;
}
?>

This returns an array for each newline entered and subarray for each wordwrapped line to print.

ie.

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => This is the first long line
            [1] => that i entered.
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => And this is the new line after that.
        )
)
mitch at electricpulp dot com 20-Sep-2007 07:35
If you're having issues with fonts not working... (Could not find/open font) check your permissions on the folder/font files and make sure they're 775, especially if you've just pulled them from a windows box. Hope this helps!
Ole Clausen 11-Sep-2007 09:11
Comment to: Sohel Taslim (03-Aug-2007 06:19)

Thanks for the function which I have modified a bit. In the new version the lines have equal space between them (the g's in your example create bigger space between the lines) - set by the parameter '$Leading'.

I have used the for-loop for better performance and slimmed the rest a little  :)

    /**
     * @name                    : makeImageF
     *
     * Function for create image from text with selected font. Justify text in image (0-Left, 1-Right, 2-Center).
     *
     * @param String $text     : String to convert into the Image.
     * @param String $font     : Font name of the text. Kip font file in same folder.
     * @param int    $Justify  : Justify text in image (0-Left, 1-Right, 2-Center).
     * @param int    $Leading  : Space between lines.
     * @param int    $W        : Width of the Image.
     * @param int    $H        : Hight of the Image.
     * @param int    $X        : x-coordinate of the text into the image.
     * @param int    $Y        : y-coordinate of the text into the image.
     * @param int    $fsize    : Font size of text.
     * @param array  $color    : RGB color array for text color.
     * @param array  $bgcolor  : RGB color array for background.
     *
     */
    function imagettfJustifytext($text, $font="CENTURY.TTF", $Justify=2, $Leading=0, $W=0, $H=0, $X=0, $Y=0, $fsize=12, $color=array(0x0,0x0,0x0), $bgcolor=array(0xFF,0xFF,0xFF)){
       
        $angle = 0;
        $_bx = imageTTFBbox($fsize,0,$font,$text);
        $s = split("[\n]+", $text);  // Array of lines
        $nL = count($s);  // Number of lines
        $W = ($W==0)?abs($_bx[2]-$_bx[0]):$W;    // If Width not initialized by programmer then it will detect and assign perfect width.
        $H = ($H==0)?abs($_bx[5]-$_bx[3])+($nL>1?($nL*$Leading):0):$H;    // If Height not initialized by programmer then it will detect and assign perfect height.
       
        $im = @imagecreate($W, $H)
            or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
       
        $background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, $bgcolor[0], $bgcolor[1], $bgcolor[2]);  // RGB color background.
        $text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, $color[0], $color[1], $color[2]); // RGB color text.
       
        if ($Justify == 0){ //Justify Left
            imagettftext($im, $fsize, $angle, $X, $fsize, $text_color, $font, $text);
        } else {
            // Create alpha-nummeric string with all international characters - both upper- and lowercase
            $alpha = range("a", "z");
            $alpha = $alpha.strtoupper($alpha).range(0, 9);
            // Use the string to determine the height of a line
            $_b = imageTTFBbox($fsize,0,$font,$alpha);
            $_H = abs($_b[5]-$_b[3]);
            $__H=0;
            for ($i=0; $i<$nL; $i++) {
                $_b = imageTTFBbox($fsize,0,$font,$s[$i]);
                $_W = abs($_b[2]-$_b[0]);
                //Defining the X coordinate.
                if ($Justify == 1) $_X = $W-$_W;  // Justify Right
                else $_X = abs($W/2)-abs($_W/2);  // Justify Center
               
                //Defining the Y coordinate.
                $__H += $_H;
                imagettftext($im, $fsize, $angle, $_X, $__H, $text_color, $font, $s[$i]);
                $__H += $Leading;
            }
        }
       
        return $im;
    }
Borgso 27-Jul-2007 04:30
Right align out of "webmaster at higher-designs dot com" code
<?php
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$font = 'visitor.ttf';
$fontsize = "12";
$fontangle = "0";
$imagewidth = imagesx($im);
$imageheight = imagesy($im);

$text = "My right align text";

$box = @imageTTFBbox($fontsize,$fontangle,$font,$text);
$textwidth = abs($box[4] - $box[0]);
$textheight = abs($box[5] - $box[1]);
$xcord = $imagewidth - ($textwidth)-2; // 2 = some space from right side.
$ycord = ($imageheight/2)+($textheight/2);

ImageTTFText ($im, $fontsize, $fontangle, $xcord, $ycord, $black, $font, $text);
?>
lassial at gmail dot com 10-May-2007 06:56
Roy van Arem suggested a neat code for listing TTFs on a machine. However, it has some problems (such as lower and upper case distinction of file extension and defective fonts) that I have corrected in the following script, which can be implemented as a single PHP script (name as you like):

<?php //make sure there are no blank lines above
       
$ffolder="/usr/local/bin/fonts"; //The directory where your fonts reside

if (empty($_GET['f']))
{
$folder=dir($ffolder); //open directory
echo "<HTML><BODY>\n";
   
while($font=$folder->read())
  if(stristr($font,'.ttf')) //only ttf fonts
        $fonts[]=$font;
       
$folder->close();

if (!empty($fonts))
        {
        echo "<table><tr><th colspan='2'>Fonts available in $ffolder</th></tr>"
        ."\n<tr><th>Name</th><th>Appereance</th>";
        sort($fonts);
        foreach ($fonts as $font)
                echo "<tr><td>$font</td><td> <IMG src='".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']
                        ."?f=$font'></td></tr>\n";
        }
else echo "No fonts found from $ffolder";
echo "\n</HTML></BODY>";
}

else
{
$im=@imagecreatetruecolor(200,30)
        or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");

$black=imagecolorallocate($im,0,0,0);
$white=imagecolorallocate($im,255,255,255);

imagefill($im,0,0,$white);
imagettftext($im,14,0,5,25,$black, "$ffolder/".$_GET['f'] , $_GET['f']);

header("Content-type: image/png");
header('Content-Length: ' . strlen($im));

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
}
?>
ultraniblet at gmail dot com 05-May-2007 01:08
I have found the kerning (spacing between letters) pretty poor with GD - it's not up to your average designer's standards. Here are some ways to improve it:
- Place the letters one by one using their bounding box instead of using one string
- adjust with a $kerning value
- For small text, sample it down from a larger size to adjust in increments less than 1px

Eg:

<?PHP

$STRING = "NOTRE PHILOSOPHIE";

// ---- PRESETS
$FONT = "CantoriaMTStd-SemiBold.otf";
$FONT_SIZE = 10.5;
$WIDTH = 200;
$HEIGHT = 16;
$KERNING = 0;
$BASELINE = 12;
$BG_COLOR = array(
    "R"=>5,
    "G"=>45,
    "B"=>53
);
$TXT_COLOR = array(
    "R"=>188,
    "G"=>189,
    "B"=>0
);

// ---- CREATE CANVAS + PALETTE
$canvas = imageCreateTrueColor($WIDTH*4,$HEIGHT*4);

$bg_color = imageColorAllocate($canvas, $BG_COLOR["R"], $BG_COLOR["G"], $BG_COLOR["B"]);

$txt_color = imageColorAllocate($canvas, $TXT_COLOR["R"], $TXT_COLOR["G"], $TXT_COLOR["B"]);

imagefill ( $canvas, 0, 0, $bg_color );

// ---- DRAW

$array = str_split($STRING);
$hpos = 0;

for($i=0; $i<count($array); $i++)
{
    $bbox = imagettftext( $canvas, $FONT_SIZE*4, 0, $hpos, $BASELINE*4, $txt_color, $FONT, $array[$i] );
   
    $hpos = $bbox[2]+$KERNING;
}

// ---- SAMPLE DOWN & OUTPUT
$final = imageCreateTrueColor($WIDTH,$HEIGHT);

imageCopyResampled( $final, $canvas, 0,0,0,0, $WIDTH, $HEIGHT, $WIDTH*4, $HEIGHT*4 );

header('Content-type: image/png');

imagePNG($final);

imageDestroy($canvas);
imageDestroy($final);

?>
Roy van Arem 26-Nov-2006 08:01
If you want to display a list of fonts in a directory and see what they look like, you could do something like this:

<HTML><BODY>

<?php

$folder=dir("fonts/"); //The directory where your fonts reside

while($font=$folder->read())
  {

  if(stristr($font,'.ttf'))echo '<IMG SRC="img.php?'.substr($font,0,strpos($font,'.')).'">'; //only ttf fonts

  }

$folder->close();

?>

</BODY></HTML>

The file for 'img.php' should be something like this:

<?php

$font=$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];

header("Content-type: image/png");
$im=@imagecreatetruecolor(200,30)or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");

$black=imagecolorallocate($im,0,0,0);
$white=imagecolorallocate($im,255,255,255);

imagefill($im,0,0,$white);

imagettftext($im,18,0,5,25,$black,"fonts/".$font,$font);

imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

?>

Something similar I implemented at http://font.beginstart.com
ben at evolutioncomputing co uk 05-Nov-2006 01:25
A centralised text watermark - of  any length, that automatically sizes to about 70% of the width, and can be rotated to any angle.

<?php
/* Get image info */
$Image = @ImageCreateFromJPEG ("YourImage.jpg") ;
$sx = imagesx($Image) ;
$sy = imagesy($Image) ;
if ($WatermarkNeeded)
    {
    /* Set text info */
    $Text="Copyright Ben Clay" ;
    $Font="arial.ttf" ;
    $FontColor = ImageColorAllocate ($Image,255,255,255) ;
    $FontShadow = ImageColorAllocate ($Image,0,0,0) ;
    $Rotation = 30 ;
    /* Make a copy image */
    $OriginalImage = ImageCreateTrueColor($sx,$sy) ;
    ImageCopy ($OriginalImage,$Image,0,0,0,0,$sx,$sy) ;
    /* Iterate to get the size up */
    $FontSize=1 ;
    do
        {
        $FontSize *= 1.1 ;
        $Box = @ImageTTFBBox($FontSize,0,$Font,$Text);
        $TextWidth = abs($Box[4] - $Box[0]) ;
        $TextHeight = abs($Box[5] - $Box[1]) ;
        }
    while ($TextWidth < $sx*0.7) ;
    /*  Awkward maths to get the origin of the text in the right place */
    $x = $sx/2 - cos(deg2rad($Rotation))*$TextWidth/2 ;
    $y = $sy/2 + sin(deg2rad($Rotation))*$TextWidth/2 + cos(deg2rad($Rotation))*$TextHeight/2 ;
    /* Make shadow text first followed by solid text */
    ImageTTFText ($Image,$FontSize,$Rotation,$x+4,$y+4,$FontShadow,$Font,$Text);
    ImageTTFText ($Image,$FontSize,$Rotation,$x,$y,$FontColor,$Font,$Text);
    /* merge original image into version with text to show image through text */
    ImageCopyMerge ($Image,$OriginalImage,0,0,0,0,$sx,$sy,50) ;
    }

ImageJPEG ($Image) ;
?>
Tom Pike 04-Oct-2006 08:48
Ref: Craig at frostycoolslug dot com

"Using the negative of a color index has the effect of turning off antialiasing."

This is true, but only if the image has been created with imagecreate() (as opposed to imagecreatetruecolor())
Craig at frostycoolslug dot com 28-Sep-2006 07:54
This one caught me out a little bit as confusing, so in an attempt to help others..

"Using the negative of a color index has the effect of turning off antialiasing."

Simply put:

<?php

$textColour = ImageColorAllocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
ImageTTFText($image, 8, 0, 0, 0, -$textColour, $font, $text);

?>

Note the - (minus) before the $textColor in ImageTTFText, this creates the negative colour index, and switches off AA on text.
jwe 24-Jul-2006 11:48
I found this line a little confusing:

"May include decimal numeric character references (of the form: &#8364;) to access characters in a font beyond position 127."

I was using a font that had apostrophes and quotes stored in a non-standard position, and so they were being rendered as spaces by imagettftext.  This line seemed to suggest a solution, but it took a while to figure it out.

Turns out, a "decimal numeric character reference" is a decimal conversion of the hex value of the *unicode* position of the character you want.  For a while I was trying ASCII positions (I knew the ALT+ code for typing the character I needed in Windows).

In the Windows XP character map, the unicode positions are shown as U+2018 or U+201C, etc.  Ignore the U+ and convert that hex number to decimal, and then stick that in your text string with the &# on the front and ; on the end, and pass it to imagettftext.

--Julian
jwe 18-Jul-2006 08:48
Quick tip for anyone who is receiving text like in the example in this page (ie: through $_GET['text'] or something similar) and needs to format the text into multiple lines.  The trick is finding the spaces...

<?php
$text = $_GET['text'];
// for a maximum of 38 characters on a line...
while(strlen($text) > 38) {
   $startPoint = 37;
   // find a space to break the line on
   while(substr($text, $startPoint, 1) != " ") {
        $startPoint--;
   }
   $line[] = trim(substr($text, 0, $startPoint));
   $text = substr($text, $startPoint);
}
$line[] = trim($text);
?>

The result is an array called $line that contains all the lines of text you need to output in order.

The only tasks left are to determine the correct height of the image based on the font size you want to use.  Don't forget to leave some padding space for punctuation and descenders between lines (commas, g, q, p, y, etc).

imagettftext is unbelievably useful when you need to create header images using non-standard fonts.  Amazing.  Huge thanks to the devs.

--Julian
admin at sgssweb dot com 01-May-2006 04:08
Another way of the bellow. After creating a child class of GMIPluggableSet class, which should override two method: getExpression() and getVariables(), throw it to a instance of FontImageGenerator class.
For example, the code follows:

<?php

require_once 'package.fig.php';

class SampleFontImagePluggableSet
    extends GMIPluggableSet
{
    var $defaultVariables = array(
        "text" => null,
        "size" => null,
        "font" => null,
        "color" => "0x000000",
        "alpha" => "100",
        "padding" => 0,
        "width" => null,
        "height" => null,
        "align" => "left",
        "valign" => "middle",
        "bgcolor" => "0xffffff",
        "antialias" => 4
    );
   
    function SampleFontImagePluggableSet() {
        parent::GMIPluggableSet();
    }
   
    function getExpression() {
        return "size {width}, {height};".
               "autoresize none;".
               "type gif, 256, {color: {bgcolor}};".
               "padding {padding};".
               "color {color: {bgcolor}};".
               "fill;".
               "color {color: {color}, {alpha}};".
               "antialias {antialias};".
               "font {font}, {size};".
               "string {text}, 0, 0, {width}, {height}, {align}, {valign};";
    }
   
    function getVariables() {
        return array_merge($this->defaultVariables, $_GET);
    }
}

$pluggableSet = new SampleFontImagePluggableSet();
$fig = new FontImageGenerator();
$fig->setPluggableSet($pluggableSet);
$fig->execute();

?>

This output a image with the text defined in $_GET['text'], the font in $_GET['font'], the text color in $_GET['color'], the background in $_GET['bgcolor'], and so on.

The script file is available at: http://sgssweb.com/experiments/?file=PHPFontImageGenerator .
mats dot engstrom at gmail dot com 28-Mar-2006 02:23
I'll second the note from --colobri--. 

Just adding --with-ttf and --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib/ on the ./configure and then doing a "make; make install" is not enough.

I had to do a "make clean" and then a "make install" in order to get the FreeType-support enabled.

Here are my relevant ./configure lines:
--with-gd \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-ttf \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib/ \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 \
--enable-exif \
admin at phpru dot com 28-Feb-2006 09:52
On my conf: php5.1.2+apache 1.33
iconv() function works very well with all cyrillic encodings, so you needn't to write your function like win2uni
--Colibri-- 28-Jan-2006 12:53
If you have configured and compiled PHP with all the necessary command-line options and still get the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagettftext()

Try doing a "make clean"  before building the php apache module:

./configure [...]
make clean
make
make install

This may solve your problem (and hopefully keep you from wasting hours trying different compile options!)
Mer`Zikain 10-Jan-2006 12:41
I was looking for a way to add kerning to my text and finally just made this function to do it. Of course, if you're generating the size of the image based on the text you're putting in it, you'll have to figure out the new size to fit the new text width but I'm sure you can figure that out.

for($i=0;$i<strlen($text);$i++){
        // Get single character
    $value=substr($text,$i,1);
    if($pval){ // check for existing previous character
        list($lx,$ly,$rx,$ry) = imagettfbbox($fontsize,0,$font,$pval);
        $nxpos+=$rx+3;
    }else{
        $nxpos=0;
    }
        // Add the letter to the image
    imagettftext($im, $fontsize, 0, $nxpos, $ypos, $fontcolor, $font, $value);
    $pval=$value; // save current character for next loop
}
alexey at NOSPAMPLS dot ozerov dot de 31-Aug-2005 12:30
Notice that the path to the TrueType font has to be included in open_basedir list if open_basedir restriction is activated in php.ini.
gav-alex at bk dot ru 10-Aug-2005 09:05
Hi all!
When my hoster updated his php's libs at first minutes i've got the same problem as some of you.
Php couldn't find the path to true type fonts.
The solution in my case was to make the path look like this
<?php
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 620, 260, $secondary_color, "./tahoma.ttf" , "NEWS");
?>
so as you can see i simply added "./"

another tip that i wanted to add here is how to write in RUssian on image using imagettftext
you simply have to change the function argument like this
<?php
imagettftext($im, 15, 0, 575, 300, $secondary_color, "./tahoma.ttf" , win2uni("some word in russian"));
 ?>
where win2uni is the function that converts win1251 to unicode. here is the code of it
<?php

  //  Windows 1251 -> Unicode
  function win2uni($s)
  {
    $s = convert_cyr_string($s,'w','i'); //  win1251 -> iso8859-5
    //  iso8859-5 -> unicode:
    for ($result='', $i=0; $i<strlen($s); $i++) {
      $charcode = ord($s[$i]);
      $result .= ($charcode>175)?"&#".(1040+($charcode-176)).";":$s[$i];
    }
    return $result;
  }
?>

That's all today! Thanks for your attention!
Alex
erik[at]phpcastle.com 04-Mar-2005 04:46
Remember!!!

When uploading a font to your website you have to set the transfer mode to binary. It took me some time to find out :P. Tried to download the font from my website and it was spoiled.

In your script, the path to your font, use realpath("arial.ttf") so there is no confusion about that.
pillepop2003 at nospam dot yahoo dot de 12-Jan-2005 05:14
Hey guys,

check this function if you want to rotate the text around its center and not its "lower left" pivot-point:

<?php
        // Put center-rotated ttf-text into image
        // Same signature as imagettftext();
        function imagettftext_cr(&$im, $size, $angle, $x, $y, $color, $fontfile, $text)
        {
            // retrieve boundingbox
            $bbox = imagettfbbox($size, $angle, $fontfile, $text);
           
            // calculate deviation
            $dx = ($bbox[2]-$bbox[0])/2.0 - ($bbox[2]-$bbox[4])/2.0;         // deviation left-right
            $dy = ($bbox[3]-$bbox[1])/2.0 + ($bbox[7]-$bbox[1])/2.0;        // deviation top-bottom
           
            // new pivotpoint
            $px = $x-$dx;
            $py = $y-$dy;
           
            return imagettftext($im, $size, $angle, $px, $py, $color, $fontfile, $text);
        }

?>

Big up
Phil
plusplus7 at hotmail dot com 15-Jul-2004 01:37
If you are getting all rectangles instead of text, it may well mean that your ttf font is not opentype, particularly if it is an older freeware one. This requirement didn't exist in older versions so you may find that your font stops working after you upgrade. To fix this problem, try downloading the free MS Volt utility. From there, open your font file, and then click on Compile, and resave.