imagefontheight

Get font height

Description

int imagefontheight ( int $font )

Returns the pixel height of a character in the specified 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 height of the font.

Examples

Example #1 Using imagefontheight on built-in fonts

<?php
echo 'Font height: ' imagefontheight(4);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Font height: 16

Example #2 Using imagefontheight together with imageloadfont

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

echo 
'Font height: ' imagefontheight($font);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Font height: 43

See Also

  • imagefontwidth
  • imageloadfont