PIM Team Case Study - Creating Text Effects With PHP And GD
See how you can create graphic effects on text with PHP and GD – drop shadows, arcs, fonts and colors. Problem A-tec Signs and Sraphics Inc. launched a web site with the idea to sell decals online. To achieve better customers ineterest the website had to integrate online decal builder. The company is offering also decals for vehicles which brought some specific requirements to the builder like having the decal text turning around 4 types of arcs. Goals Provide users with preview area Allow visitors to choose font and color Allow adding drop shadow and selecting drop shadow color Allow turning the text into arcs Real Time calculating Solution Because of the need for increasing customers interest we had to think about not for perfect math formulas when showing the graphs in the preview area, but for the people who will look at them. As we will reaveal below, there were few problems going around human appreceptions for something ‘perfectly smooth’ and the matchematical p...