Comments on: TIC – Text Image Converter http://www.andreabelvedere.com/coding/tic-text-image-converter Coding, Life Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:51:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: andrea belvedere http://www.andreabelvedere.com/coding/tic-text-image-converter/comment-page-1#comment-320 andrea belvedere Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:52:11 +0000 http://www.andreabelvedere.com/?p=356#comment-320 Hi Martin, I am not sure I have fully understood what you are asking, however I have run this test with a Japanese font and it works perfectly: <pre lang="PHP"> <?php require_once dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/tic/lib/tic.php'; $fontfile = dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/tic/fonts/ttf-japanese-mincho.ttf'; $tic = TIC::factory($fontfile); $tic->setText('アンドレア') ->setBackground(0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa) ->setColor(array(0x00, 0x00, 0x00)) ->setPadding(5) ->create(true); // create and output ?> </pre> And the output is here below: <img src="http://www.andreabelvedere.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/andrea.png" alt="andrea" /> In your case you will pass text to <code>setText</code> as follow: <code>setText($unicode);</code> where <code>$unicode</code> will hold your unicode string from the database. Hope this helps. Andrea Hi Martin,
I am not sure I have fully understood what you are asking, however I have run this test with a Japanese font and it works perfectly:

<?php
require_once dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/tic/lib/tic.php';
 
$fontfile = dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/tic/fonts/ttf-japanese-mincho.ttf';
$tic = TIC::factory($fontfile);
$tic->setText('アンドレア')
->setBackground(0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa)
->setColor(array(0x00, 0x00, 0x00))
->setPadding(5)
->create(true); // create and output
?>

And the output is here below:
andrea

In your case you will pass text to setText as follow: setText($unicode); where $unicode will hold your unicode string from the database.
Hope this helps.
Andrea

]]> By: Martin http://www.andreabelvedere.com/coding/tic-text-image-converter/comment-page-1#comment-319 Martin Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:35:03 +0000 http://www.andreabelvedere.com/?p=356#comment-319 How is it possible to generate images from TTF fonts for chinese characters? I do not know how to get those UNICODE characters as arguments to setText. I did also try to use the PHP image library directly but ran into similar problems, the PHP-chr() function allows only ASCII. I do have TTF font files (from university of Heidelberg) and want to generate chinese texts from a database using PHP. How is it possible to generate images from TTF fonts for chinese characters? I do not know how to get those UNICODE characters as arguments to setText. I did also try to use the PHP image library directly but ran into similar problems, the PHP-chr() function allows only ASCII.

I do have TTF font files (from university of Heidelberg) and want to generate chinese texts from a database using PHP.

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