<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Output text</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ps-show2.html">ps_show2</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ps-string-geometry.html">ps_string_geometry</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.ps.html">PS Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.ps-show" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">ps_show</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL ps >= 1.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ps_show</span> — <span class="dc-title">Output text</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ps-show-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ps_show</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$psdoc</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$text</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Output a text at the current text position. The text position can be set by storing the x and y coordinates into the values <em>textx</em> and <em>texty</em> with the function <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-set-value.html" class="function">ps_set_value()</a></span>. The function will issue an error if a font was not set before with <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-setfont.html" class="function">ps_setfont()</a></span>. </p> <p class="para"> <span class="function"><strong>ps_show()</strong></span> evaluates the following parameters and values as set by <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-set-parameter.html" class="function">ps_set_parameter()</a></span> and <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-set-value.html" class="function">ps_set_value()</a></span>. </p> <dl> <dt> <span class="term">charspacing (value)</span> <dd> <p class="para"> Distance between two consecutive glyphs. If this value is unequal to zero then all ligatures will be resolved. Values less than zero are allowed. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term">kerning (parameter)</span> <dd> <p class="para"> Setting this parameter to "false" will turn off kerning. Kerning is turned on by default. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term">ligatures (parameter)</span> <dd> <p class="para"> Setting this parameter to "false" will turn off the use of ligatures. Ligatures are turned on by default. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term">underline (parameter)</span> <dd> <p class="para"> Setting this parameter to "true" will turn on underlining. Underlining is turned off by default. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term">overline (parameter)</span> <dd> <p class="para"> Setting this parameter to "true" will turn on overlining. Overlining is turned off by default. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term">strikeout (parameter)</span> <dd> <p class="para"> Setting this parameter to "true" will turn on striking out. Striking out is turned off by default. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.ps-show-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">psdoc</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Resource identifier of the postscript file as returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-new.html" class="function">ps_new()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">text</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The text to be output. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ps-show-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ps-show-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-continue-text.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ps_continue_text()</a> - Continue text in next line</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-show-xy.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ps_show_xy()</a> - Output text at given position</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-setfont.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ps_setfont()</a> - Sets font to use for following output</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ps-show2.html">ps_show2</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ps-string-geometry.html">ps_string_geometry</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.ps.html">PS Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>