Image "stitching" with GD - Help

[gojuka@si.rr.com]

Hi All

I have (what seems to be) a rather simple problem I'd like to solve
using PHP with the GD library installed. I would like to "stitch"
multiple images together so that they appear next to each other, but
create a new file while doing this. For example, lets say I have 5
images named 1.gif through 5.gif, each containing the digits 1-5
respectively. I would like use GD to place them next to each other in
a new image (1 single image), so they read "12345" when displayed in
the browser. I do not want to have the 5 images simply displayed next
to each other.

Can this be done with GD?

TIA
Rob

[Oli Filth]

Re: Image "stitching " with GD - Help

gojuka@si.rr.co m said the following on 26/06/2005 16:12:[color=blue]
> Hi All
>
> I have (what seems to be) a rather simple problem I'd like to solve
> using PHP with the GD library installed. I would like to "stitch"
> multiple images together so that they appear next to each other, but
> create a new file while doing this. For example, lets say I have 5
> images named 1.gif through 5.gif, each containing the digits 1-5
> respectively. I would like use GD to place them next to each other in
> a new image (1 single image), so they read "12345" when displayed in
> the browser. I do not want to have the 5 images simply displayed next
> to each other.
>
> Can this be done with GD?
>[/color]

Yes.

Create a blank image using createtruecolor () with dimensions big enough
to fit all five sub-images.

Then simply run imagecopy() five times, specifiying the new image as
destination every time, and each of sub-images in turn as source, and
calculate the position of the top-left corner in the destination image
each time.

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Oli