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Using GD to write bold and/or italic text

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:06 am
by starsol
I'm using imagettftext to write text on top of an image - and it all works well for normally formatted text. Unfortunately I can't seem to find how to bold or italicse this text - can anyone give me a pointer as to how to accomplish this?

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:21 am
by Jenk
You need to have the bold or italic font file that is associated with the font. :)

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:26 am
by starsol
Thanks Jenk :) - to clarify - if I for example want to use Arial.ttf, I would need to find something along the lines of ArialItalic.ttf and use that instead?

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:27 am
by feyd
yes.