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imagefontwidth

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagefontwidthGet font width

Description

int imagefontwidth ( int $font )

Returns the pixel width of a character in font.

Parameters

font

Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or any of your own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().

Return Values

Returns the pixel width of the font.

Examples

Example #1 Using imagefontwidth() on built-in fonts

<?php
echo 'Font width: ' imagefontwidth(4);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Font width: 8

Example #2 Using imagefontwidth() together with imageloadfont()

<?php
// Load a .gdf font
$font imageloadfont('anonymous.gdf');

echo 
'Font width: ' imagefontwidth($font);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Font width: 23

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