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I'm making a skin previewer for my site; I need to rotate parts of an image to create a representation of this for my users to see. The skin is a PNG file, and all parts of it may have transparency or even none at all. I need to be able to rotate this image while keeping any transparency inside the image transparent, while also having the extended borders (You know, the area that wasn't part of the image before it was rotated) transparent. All of my attempts have left a black border around the image itself. Any help? Cut out the piece of the image you want to rotate Rotate preserving alpha

Are there existing libraries for generating .ttf via image(s) using PHP (say, a series of images)? There are several references about creating gdf from images, but I've not yet found examples of ttf-font creation via PHP. N.B. There are also several online resources that let you upload an image (write a letter in each box on an image template) to be instantly converted to a TTF. http://www.yourfonts.com is one of them To my knowledge, there is no such tool. Creating a TrueType font is a hugely difficult enterprise. A font consists of a lot of very complex information (see the "technical notes"

I'm using imagettftext to generate images from OpenType files. Everything works until I try to use an accented character (e.g. å) or a character such as √. In their place I get the .notdef glyph. The fonts I'm using definitely have these characters. To make things even more frustrating, when I use a TTF everything works as expected. Any ideas? Thanks Sorry to tell you, but PHP OTF supports only standard Ascii characters. It's a well known fact that special characters in OTF only very rarely work. I'm afraid you will have to stick with TTF until they correct that. Not true! (answer 1)

I'm trying to create a Thumbnail Generator in PHP with GD that will take an image and reduce it to a fixed width/height. The square it takes from the original image (based on my fixed width/height) will come from the center of the image to give a proportionally correct thumbnail. I'll try to demonstrate that confusing sentence with some nice ASCII :} LANDSCAPE EXAMPLE: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXOOOOOOOOXXXX XXXXOOOOOOOOXXXX XXXXOOOOOOOOXXXX XXXXOOOOOOOOXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX PORTRAIT EXAMPLE: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX

Any PHP functions that deal with JPEGs don't seem to be working on my server. This code: <?php $im = imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20); $text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91); imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, 'A Simple Text String', $text_color); header('Content-type: image/jpeg'); imagejpeg($im); imagedestroy($im); ?> creates an empty file. Using a GIF or PNG function will create an image containing the text "A Simple Text String" as expected. This: $im = imagecreatefromjpeg("test.jpg"); returns Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: 'test.jpg' is not a valid JPEG

How can you make a sharpness filter with the PHP GD library? So that this... Turns to this... If it is not possible with PHP , than what other languages are capable? I think he wants to use PHP's GD library. It's pretty easy: function.imageconvolution . Just search for 'sharpen' on the page and you'll see a matrix you can use for sharpening. It works pretty well, although I would recommend using ImageMagick if you're trying to do anything more than that. If the ImageMagick is installed in your PHP config, you can use Imagick::adaptiveSharpenImage From the manual: <?php try { $image = new

I am having problems in rendering unicode glyphs ( language : Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi) with PHP GD library. Is this something related to the rendering engine of GD library? Any workarounds available ? First make sure your fonts contain the desired glyphs (system fonts such as Arial should). Then make sure you convert your parameters to unicode using utf8_decode() if neccessary. Sudhir Vishwakarma i have found one try this <?php //error_reporting(0); $text = ("Unreadable text"); $font = "mangal.ttf"; $fontSize = "10"; $width = '600'; $s = new CairoImageSurface(CairoFormat::ARGB32, $width, 21

I am using this code to create an image <?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