How to make the text bolder in imagestring?

[Irresistable]

imagestring ($img_handle, 5, 20, 6, $sum, $color);

 

How do I make it so the text is bolder, but not actually bigger?

This then gets converted into an image too.

[MadTechie]

use imagettftext with a bold font would be the best route,

i guess you could do this, but its not very pretty

	header('Content-type: image/png');
$img_handle = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);
$color = imagecolorallocate($img_handle, 255, 0, 0);
$sum = 'Testing...';
$_x = array(1, 0, 1, 0, -1, -1, 1, 0, -1);
$_y = array(0, -1, -1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 1, 1);
for($n=0;$n<=8;$n++){
	imagestring ($img_handle, 20, $x_cord+$_x[$n], $y_cord+$_y[$n], $sum, $color);
}
imagepng($img_handle);
imagedestroy($img_handle);