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ImageTTFBBox

ImageTTFBBox -- give the bounding box of a text using TypeType fonts

Description

array ImageTTFBBox(int size, int angle, string fontfile, string text);

This function calculates and returns the bounding box in pixels a TrueType text.

text

The string to be measured.

size

The font size.

fontfile

The name of the TrueType font file. (Can also be an URL.)

angle

Angle in degrees in which text will be measured.

ImageTTFBBox() returns an array with 8 elements representing four points making the bounding box of the text:

0upper left corner, X position
1upper left corner, Y position
2upper right corner, X position
3upper right corner, Y position
4lower right corner, X position
5lower right corner, Y position
6lower left corner, X position
7lower left corner, Y position
The points are relative to the text regardless of the angle, so "upper left" means in the top left-hand corner seeing the text horizontallty.

This function requires both the GD library and the Freetype library.

See also ImageTTFText().

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