This is a bug in GD2 - When you use Truecolor images with GD2, anti-aliasing of ttf fonts break. This is fixed in GD-2.0.2. You don't seem to have all that many colours on those certificates. Try simply using an indexed image just to see the real quality you can get with GD+TTF before switching.
The patches to fix this are available privately, but you should bug the folks at boutell.com to release a new version of GD2. -Rasmus On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Here's the situation. > > I run the website for a macintosh user folding@home team. > > We are providing certificates for users who have done a signifigant amount > of work for the team. > > I have jpeg templates and I'm using ImageTTFBBox and ImageTTFText to write > the username of the user on the certificate. > > Some of the more "artistic" mac users have noticed some pixelation on the > text. > I'm looking for a way to clean that up. > > Is there a way to use Postscript fonts with php? > I looked at the ImageMagik php extension, and it looks like it is still > quite early in development. > > I haven't used ImageMagik much, but would an exec() call to the real > ImageMagick and then have php display what it does be a solution to this? > (yes- I know exec() isn't as good as pure php but hey-) > > If you want to see it for yourself, look at the images produced by the > usernames with links at http://macaddict4life.dhs.org/walloffame.php > > The source to the image generation is at > http://macaddict4life.dhs.org/Certs/certificate.phps > > I'm currently using php 4.1.2 with GD-2 and FreeType 2 support (x86 Linux > Apache DSO) > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Different matter, is there a way to pass the username to the php script > from a hyperlink w/o needing a ?name=blah in the link? > > It would be cool if the script could just end in .jpeg opposed to > .jpeg?name=blah > (in that directory apache handled .jpeg as if it was .php) > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
