[thelist] php on-the-fly image and text generation question

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Sun Oct 13 18:02:01 CDT 2002


> Does anyone have any idea why some of the letters on this
> page are all blurry?
>
> http://www.1976design.com/testarea/photo/image.php
>

I believe it's because you are using a pixel font at spacing that
doesn't suit the arrangements of the pixels on your screen.

If that sounds odd, you can find some info on using pixel fonts here:

http://www.wpdfd.com/

but you'll have to dig for it.

basically the font your using is a single pixel wide, if the image you
make with it places the font at a fraction of a pixel out then the
screen has to dither to display it, hence the blurry ness.

Hope this helps

(but I don't have a solution, unless you can control the spacing between
characters)

Tony




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