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Dynamic Text to Image Generation using PHP and GD Library

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Luke Tarplin
This week we have been looking at dynamic image generation, particularly text to image generation. This technique can be very useful when creating particularly graphic heavy sites, that you need to control with a CMS or alter the text regularly.

The problem with interesting fonts on the web is that apart from the few that you can guareetee are supported correctly by the users browser very few work properly. To get around this we we could use Flash or create a compiled Image file, such as; jpegs or gif etc...

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