Re: Font Effects (Oblique, 'Bold', etc)

Just to follow up on my own question, I did find the following page:
http://greyworld.net/en/projects/p/php-gd-better-freetype2/

He has made modifications to GD to expose more of FreeType's 
functionality. Unfortunately, hist last 'supported' PHP version is 
5.2.9, and I get a segfault when using this with 5.3.

Pierre or Takeshi, maybe you can take a look at this and make it part of 
GD? (Or at least help make it work?:P) I'm not a C programmer, but I did 
do enough digging to know it is the "render_mode |= strex->loadFlags;" 
change in gdft.c that's causing the segfaults.

Thanks for any help and attention you can give this. :)
-Jason

Jason Young 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