[SOLVED] gdf clarification

[tommyboy123x]

i'm working on a script that will create a font and output a string to the user with that font, however i dont really understand how to do this with a gdf font... i saw a tool similar to what i want, http://www.puremango.co.uk/cm_web_projects_83.php, but i'm kind of a DIY kind of person.

 

so lets say i create a .gdf file out of the png image like this utility, what is this file exactly?  it would be more useful if i could make a TTF (true type font), is this even possible?

[MadTechie]

See

imageloadfont

 

example of what i have done is here

[MadTechie]

I'll build you a basic GD font pack, i have a basic GD Font Creator

[tommyboy123x]

i'll be giving the custom made fonts to the users, but does that function basically load the font and output it to the user in an image?

 

its handy to know cause i have always wondreed how to do that but is there any way to convert this to a TTF for the user to download and save to their computer?

 

thanks for the help

[MadTechie]

I don't know if you can convert to TTF..

you can convert TTF to GDF,

 

yes it create an image using the fonts

 

maybe imagettftext would be better

 

i have attached 182kb zip which may help

 

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[tommyboy123x]

so just to make sure here, when i used that program i mentioned above it created a font file which (for the sake of simplicity) only php can interpret really, and create an image to output from.

 

So what exactly is the "format" for creating a gdf font (... or is that like saying PIN Number?)

 

 

EDIT: just realized a huge flaw in that script for me, its that the users font is made from a handwriting, so the text is almost never completely black, and the background is not always completely white... i know it can be modified pretty easily though

 

so the... "format" for making the fonts is the

 

$fontdata = chr($numchars).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0).chr($startchar).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0).chr($pixelwidth).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0).chr($pixelheight).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0);

 

opening?  then each time you have a character that is black (the 255?), then it copies it to the GDF image... right?

[MadTechie]

$fontdata = chr($numchars).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0).chr($startchar).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0).chr($pixelwidth).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0).chr($pixelheight).chr(0).chr(0).chr(0);

 

is used when creating the GDF from the png (sample font.png) once thats done it creates font.gdf, this can be loaded in as a GD font that is used by imageloadfont..

hope that makes sense!

[tommyboy123x]

i really appreciate the help, thanks... i finally understood it when i stared at the php.net table for the imageloadfont() for a few minutes

 

i'm blaming the vicodin