<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >imagepsloadfont</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Image functions" HREF="ref.image.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="imagepsfreefont" HREF="function.imagepsfreefont.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="imagepsslantfont" HREF="function.imagepsslantfont.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imagepsfreefont.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imagepsslantfont.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.imagepsloadfont" ></A >imagepsloadfont</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN36281" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.9, PHP 4 )</P >imagepsloadfont -- Load a PostScript Type 1 font from file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN36284" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >imagepsloadfont</B > ( string filename)<BR ></BR ><P > In the case everything went right, a valid font index will be returned and can be used for further purposes. Otherwise the function returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > and prints a message describing what went wrong, which you cannot read directly, while the output type is image. </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php header ("Content-type: image/jpeg"); $im = imagecreate (350, 45); $black = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); $white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); $font = imagepsloadfont ("bchbi.pfb"); // or locate your .pfb files on your machine imagepstext ($im, "Testing... It worked!", $font, 32, $white, $black, 32, 32); imagepsfreefont ($font); imagejpeg ($im, "", 100); //for best quality...your mileage may vary imagedestroy ($im); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.imagepsfreefont.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imagepsfreefont()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.imagepsfreefont.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.imagepsslantfont.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >imagepsfreefont</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.image.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >imagepsslantfont</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >