image verification font size

[dvayne]

<?php
session_start();

// make a string with all the characters that we 
// want to use as the verification code
$alphanum  = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

// generate the verication code 
$rand = substr(str_shuffle($alphanum), 0, 6);

// choose one of four background images
$bgNum = rand(3, 4);

// create an image object using the chosen background
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg("background$bgNum.jpg");

$textColor = imagecolorallocate ($image, 0, 0, 0); 

// write the code on the background image
imagestring ($image, 5, 5, 8,  $rand, $textColor); 


// create the hash for the verification code
// and put it in the session
$_SESSION['image_random_value'] = md5($rand);

// send several headers to make sure the image is not cached	
// taken directly from the PHP Manual

// Date in the past 
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); 

// always modified 
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); 

// HTTP/1.1 
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); 
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false); 

// HTTP/1.0 
header("Pragma: no-cache"); 	


// send the content type header so the image is displayed properly
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');

// send the image to the browser
imagejpeg($image);

// destroy the image to free up the memory
imagedestroy($image);
?>

is it possible to increase the font size of the string? any help would be appreciated..

[elpaisa]

$font_size = "8";


// write the code on the background image
imagestring ($image, $font_size, 5, 8,  $rand, $textColor);