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Hello there!

I'm using GD to display some text. The default font is Courier (or something similar)... I want to use another font and I found this function: imageloadfont that requires a .gdf file. I've search on Google to see if I find some nice fonts, but I didn't find anything. I see there's a script to convert a PNG file to a GDF, but I can't waste too much time so I'd like to know where can I get some nice fonts, or maybe there's another easier way to do what I want.

Thanks for reading.

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Have you tried using a converter to convert a truetype font file into gdf?

http://www.lunar.lu/ttf-to-gdf/convert.php

Mark
Thanks for your help. I tried to convert 'Consolas' but the result is not good: http://i.imgur.com/BpPWc.png Thanks again!
Cristian
ahh I guess it doesn't do anti aliasing well. But I see you've found the solution you were looking for :)
Mark
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Sigh...

Sorry guys, I hadn't seen the imagettftext function in the documentation. Thanks @Pekka for the advice. Finally I just copied the consolas.ttf file in the same directory of the script and did:

imagettftext ( $image, 12, 0, 200, 100, 0, 'consolas.ttf' , "thanks!");

It works perfectly.

Thanks for reading...

Cristian