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Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring [message #182410 is a reply to message #182409]

Sat, 03 August 2013 20:31

Ed Jay
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Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On Saturday 03 August 2013 14:59, in comp.lang.php, edMbj(at)aes-intl(dot)com
> wrote:
>
>> I'm merging text into an image using:
>>
>> $msg = 'string1:' . $string1 . ' string2: ' . $string2;
>>
>> $text = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
>> imagestring($text, 5, 50, 50, $msg, 0x00ff00);
>> imagecopymerge($final, $text, 50, 50, 50, 50, $width, $height, 100);
>>
>> The above works.
>>
>> What I want to do is have ' string2: ' . $string2 show on a new line. How?
>>
>> Anything with the quotes displays as a literal, e.g., '\r\n string2'
>> outputs as \r\n\string2, as does <br> and anything else, just as the
>> manual says it will. I tried adding the string PCP_EOL, but it didn't
>> play. I tried $msg = nl2br(string to output) with \r\n within the string,
>> but it doesn't play.
>>
>> So...how do I produce cr/lf?
>
> The php.net description of the imagestring() function
> (http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagestring.php) says that it draws "a
> string horizontally".
>
> I believe that the function is not constructed to draw multiple lines, but
> only text in a single horizontal line.
>
> So, to draw two strings, one line apart, you make two calls to
> imagestring(), with two individual strings.
>
> The second call should use the first call's x and y values, offset by the
> font size (imagefontheight()) plus the amount of space between each line.

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		Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Ed Jay on Sat, 03 August 2013 18:59
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Lew Pitcher on Sat, 03 August 2013 20:26
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Ed Jay on Sat, 03 August 2013 20:31
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 03 August 2013 20:53
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Tim Streater on Sat, 03 August 2013 21:01
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Lew Pitcher on Sat, 03 August 2013 21:24
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Tim Streater on Sat, 03 August 2013 21:53
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Lew Pitcher on Sat, 03 August 2013 22:47
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Richard Damon on Sat, 03 August 2013 22:02
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: Ed Jay on Sat, 03 August 2013 22:56
		Re: Newline (cr/lf) in imagestring By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 04 August 2013 01:52

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