How to calculate the bounding rect for gdImageStringFT when the angle is not zero

[email protected] ("Andrei Stebakov")
Newsgroups php.gd.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

I've been using the function gdImageStringFT for some time and it was fine
untill I started to think of how to create a text image with non-zero angle.
It looks like the bounding rect which I calculate setting gdImagePtr to NULL
doesn't take the angle into account (and it's in the spec too).
Even if I calculate the rect for zero angle text and then create an image
with max(rect-width, rect-height) I still need to know the x and y offsets.

Here is some pseudo-code how I do it:

rect = render-no-draw("some text", font, some_angle) //Calc the rect
int box_width  = rect[2] - rect[0]
int box_height  = rect[3] - rect[5]
int horizont_shift  = rect[0]
int vertical_shift = rect[1]

im = gdImageCreate(box_width, box_height) //Create the image

int x = -horizont_shift
int y = box_height - vertical_shift
gdImageStringFT(im, "some text",  ..., x, y) //Draw the text


The algorithm above works when the angle is zero, so I need to customize
somehow for non-zero angle.
1) How to calculate the image sizes in this case
2) How to calculate x and y for the angled text

Thank you,
Andrei
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