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<h1 class="refname">imagepsloadfont</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">imagepsloadfont</span> — <span class="dc-title">Load a PostScript Type 1 font from file</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.imagepsloadfont-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>imagepsloadfont</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Load a PostScript Type 1 font from the given
<em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em>.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.imagepsloadfont-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Path to the Postscript font file.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.imagepsloadfont-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
In the case everything went right, a valid font index will be returned and
can be used for further purposes. Otherwise the function returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.imagepsloadfont-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-3268">
<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>imagepsloadfont()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Create a new image instance<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecreatetruecolor</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">350</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">45</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Allocate colors and fill the background<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$black </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecolorallocate</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$white </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecolorallocate</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">255</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">255</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">255</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagefilledrectangle</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">349</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">44</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$white</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Load a font, write to the image and free the font from memory<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$font </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepsloadfont</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"bchbi.pfb"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepstext</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Testing... It worked!"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$font</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">32</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$white</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$black</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">32</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">32</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepsfreefont</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$font</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Output the image<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">header</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Content-type: image/png'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepng</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagedestroy</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.imagepsloadfont-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">This function is only available
if PHP is compiled using <strong class="option configure">--with-t1lib[=DIR]</strong>
.
</span></p></blockquote>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.imagepsloadfont-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagepsfreefont.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagepsfreefont()</a> - Free memory used by a PostScript Type 1 font</span></li>
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