Re: [GD-DEVEL] Rendering Transparent Text?

hi!

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:35 AM, SGreth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>    I've been scouring Google and I have yet to find anybody who's answered
> the question if you can render transparent text with GD. Think of creating a
> PNG "stencil" if you will. Take an image that's all black, and then "cut
> out" some text on it by rendering some transparent text. I've been trying
> all sorts of combinations with imagecolortransparent() to no avail. Any
> insight if I'm chasing a pipe-dream would be greatly appreciated.


See http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/gd/playground/text_on_transparent_background/

It is in C but the PHP API is very closed :)


Cheers,
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Pierre

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