Re: [GD-DEVEL] Font Effects (Oblique, 'Bold', etc)

Does anyone know how to get rid of those frickin ugly white columns/rows on
the edges of resized thumbnails?  It's so ugly on a black background.
-Joe

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Jason Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> If I remember correctly, GD simply passes through most (if not all) of its
> text handling to FreeType. I also know that FreeType can't magically
> italicize text, but can slant (oblique) it.
>
> Does GD have any interface to tell FreeType to perform this operation
> (imageFTtext ?) Similarly, are there any good practices to make text bold
> when you don't actually have a Bold TTF (printing text twice, etc)?
>
> Thanks for any insight you can provide. :)
> -Jason
>
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