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

That's very cool, and seems like it would be quite useful. I see it's 
primarily a GTK library, what kind of dependencies will the host need to 
have in order to benefit from Pango?

A quick search on Pango on PHP reveals that you have been checking in 
code with Pango support - is there a CVS checkout with this support 
available? I'd really like to play around with it and see how I can 
utilize it.

Do you have a rough timeframe as to when this might be available? (2009, 
spring 2010, etc?)

Sorry for all of the questions, but this could potentially be exciting 
stuff if it can make GD do all the same things it does, and more.

-Jason


Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Something much more flexible in under development using the Pango
> rendering library. It supports advanced options and unicode, see some
> example here: http://pierre.libgd.org/pango/
> 
> It is planed to include this API in PHP as well as soon as we are happy with it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:12 PM, 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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