Graphical Signature Generator

[silly rabbit]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I would like a graphical signature generator . . . They should then be able to assign text in their choice of fonts to the image to create a custom signature.

Wayne, I've been searching thru threads and have been looking for something similar perhaps to what you'd like to do. I'd like to upload a small selection of fonts to my Vb server for automatic php conversion into IMG replacement headers but am unsure how to indeed install TTF(true type fonts) onto my server to accomplish this 'l.il feat. I know about WEFT:

Originally Posted by microsoft

Point the WEFT wizard at your site and it will analyze each page, building an accurate picture of their font usage. The tool will then create compressed font objects containing the required characters. Finally the wizard adds code to your pages linking the font objects to them.

The font objects created by WEFT differ from traditional font files in a number of ways. The font objects are compressed and are usually subsetted so that they only contain the characters used by a particular site or page. This means that font object file sizes are much smaller than those of ordinary TrueType or PostScript font files.

. . . but what I want to do is dynamically convert small sections of text on the fly (ie:headers) and I have a php script to do just that but do not know how to load fonts onto my server. The following is from 'help test':

The $font_file variable must be set to the local path (not the URL) of a True Type (TTF) or Open Type (OTF) font on your web server. This is the font that your images will be created with; you?ll need to upload it to the web server from your own computer.

What the php script does is take any header text and convert it on the fly into a custom font IMG (cached) of any size for display on any browser BUT I CAN'T FIND INFO ON STALLING TTF to my server!!!

Suggestions??