PHP: imagepsencodefont

imagepsencodefont

(PHP 3 >= 3.0.9, PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagepsencodefont -- Change the character encoding vector of a font

Description

int imagepsencodefont ( int font_index, string encodingfile )

Loads a character encoding vector from a file and changes the fonts encoding vector to it. As a PostScript fonts default vector lacks most of the character positions above 127, you'll definitely want to change this if you use an other language than English. The exact format of this file is described in T1libs documentation. T1lib comes with two ready-to-use files, IsoLatin1.enc and IsoLatin2.enc.

If you find yourself using this function all the time, a much better way to define the encoding is to set ps.default_encoding in the configuration file to point to the right encoding file and all fonts you load will automatically have the right encoding.

Note: This function is only available if PHP is compiled using --with-t1lib[=DIR].

User Contributed Notes
imagepsencodefont

Scott Hanson
15-Jul-2003 07:15


The t1lib-5.0.0 source includes 5 different encoding files under Fonts/enc/. For my text with German umlauts, using IsoLatin1.enc did not work, but PSLatin1.enc did the trick.

alex_marquarth at yahoo dot de
24-Oct-2002 03:41


Because I have had problems with this function to find out that there is no result to store in a variable, a short example how to use:



$font = imagepsloadfont( "/home/www/font/Arial.pfb" );

imagepsencodefont( $font, "/home/www/font/IsoLatin1.enc" );



afterwards you can use the resource $font in each other ps function like imagepstext() or imagepsbbox().

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