Golden_Eagle
09-05-2002, 04:58 PM
Hi all.
Attention Guru's!
I would like to post a request for someone to come up with a script that has already been made. But is not available as yet on the web.... (or prove me wrong!)
After talking to a number of different people regarding this topic, have informed me that it is not all that difficult to those who are in the know!
I don't know much about PHP, in fact, have absolutely no idea.
Which is why this is posted as a request. If I could have made it, I would have done!
My problem is this. I want to make an online Font Viewer for users of my quite popular website to be able to view what their text would look like before they download that particular font.
An example of this is available (to use) @
http://www.fonthead.com/fonts-preview.php
Somebody I have already spoke to gave me this reply:
Although this is easily done it doesn't seem that too many scripts have been written to do this. It's nothing more than generating an image on the fly inserting the text from the user and using the font specified. PHP can do all that quite easily. Here are a couple of code snippets on the subject.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990124.php3
http://oct31.org/fonts/sample.txt
The script on the site you posted was probably written by the site owners or they hired someone to write it for them. Doesn't seem to be any available anywhere. Maybe i'll write one if I ever get some free time. I've done one in Java once so maybe it's time for one in PHP.
This, to some of you, probably makes sense. But to me it's just words and scribbles.
Obviously a HTML form is needed to send the information to the script. But when the word 'script' gets mentioned I seem to be blocked!
Is anyone willing to give this script a go.
If you are ready and willing let me know.
Any help with this would be hugely appreciated.
Any royalties/credits required, once completed, will be honored.
Any thoughts on this post at all will be noted.
Newbie Member
Golden Eagle
AKA Leon
http://www.font-factory.com
Attention Guru's!
I would like to post a request for someone to come up with a script that has already been made. But is not available as yet on the web.... (or prove me wrong!)
After talking to a number of different people regarding this topic, have informed me that it is not all that difficult to those who are in the know!
I don't know much about PHP, in fact, have absolutely no idea.
Which is why this is posted as a request. If I could have made it, I would have done!
My problem is this. I want to make an online Font Viewer for users of my quite popular website to be able to view what their text would look like before they download that particular font.
An example of this is available (to use) @
http://www.fonthead.com/fonts-preview.php
Somebody I have already spoke to gave me this reply:
Although this is easily done it doesn't seem that too many scripts have been written to do this. It's nothing more than generating an image on the fly inserting the text from the user and using the font specified. PHP can do all that quite easily. Here are a couple of code snippets on the subject.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990124.php3
http://oct31.org/fonts/sample.txt
The script on the site you posted was probably written by the site owners or they hired someone to write it for them. Doesn't seem to be any available anywhere. Maybe i'll write one if I ever get some free time. I've done one in Java once so maybe it's time for one in PHP.
This, to some of you, probably makes sense. But to me it's just words and scribbles.
Obviously a HTML form is needed to send the information to the script. But when the word 'script' gets mentioned I seem to be blocked!
Is anyone willing to give this script a go.
If you are ready and willing let me know.
Any help with this would be hugely appreciated.
Any royalties/credits required, once completed, will be honored.
Any thoughts on this post at all will be noted.
Newbie Member
Golden Eagle
AKA Leon
http://www.font-factory.com