New! Signature Generator

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At the very least the shadow should be fixed(-ish), I added some stuff into the code for Ste to allow for partially transparent drop shadows (before it was fully opaque)

Edit: Better or worse?

generator.php

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At the very least the shadow should be fixed(-ish), I added some stuff into the code for Ste to allow for partially transparent drop shadows (before it was fully opaque)

Edit: Better or worse?

generator.php

Looks nice, but the white bands are too sharp. The ones in the header are much nicer to be honest. :)

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At the very least the shadow should be fixed(-ish), I added some stuff into the code for Ste to allow for partially transparent drop shadows (before it was fully opaque)

Edit: Better or worse?

generator.php

The name text looks a little too faded. I think there's too little shadow one this one, as opposed to the generated ones, which have too much.

I'm looking forward to having one of those signatures as my subscription runs out at the end of this month, and I'll subscribe as a Subscriber2.

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Hard to tell in the screenshot, but important because of longer names - have you adjusted the letter spacing in the generator? I just reduced it by 10% or so in the Fireworks version - I prefer slightly tighter kerning in that font. If it's not possible, don't worry about it. Looking forward to having this up, for staff use too :) Thanks for your efforts.

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im a lil busy atm, however if alex can send me a better file ill upload that :p

The code hasn't changed location :p It's in the same place as it was last time.

Rob: Yeah, you can adjust the "kerning", GD's pretty dumb when it comes to text rendering but you can fake it yourself (don't draw a string of characters, draw each character itself, then you can change the position, etc.)

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Hard to tell in the screenshot, but important because of longer names - have you adjusted the letter spacing in the generator? I just reduced it by 10% or so in the Fireworks version - I prefer slightly tighter kerning in that font. If it's not possible, don't worry about it. Looking forward to having this up, for staff use too :) Thanks for your efforts.

I have some code that kinda fakes kerning now, not entirely impressed with it though.

No Kerning:

font.php?point_size=24

vs.

Faked Kerning:

font.php?point_size=24&kern=1

I can't read the actual value out of the font, so all that happens is the width of the character is worked out, then a kerning factor is applied to that as a percentage of it (0.5 = 50% of the character width). There's a bug that causes the "ju" to get more spacing when drawn separately, somehow.

Edit: I should make this clear, in the second line I'm only applying a custom kerning value to the "fo" bit, the rest has no kerning applied and the tighter spacing comes from measuring the character width separately.

Edit 2: And I think it breaks down entirely when you use a sans-serif font too :sleep:

Edit 3: Changed the function around a bit and got a much nicer result, also works with sans-serifs now.

font.php?point_size=24&font_file=coolvetica.ttf&kern=1

Edit 4: Even more changes!

generator.php?shadow_colour=FFFFFF&text_colour=8D5807 vs. generator.php?shadow_colour=FFFFFF&text_colour=8D5807&kern=1

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The code's been available the whole time :p

http://alex.thefrapp.com/files/generator/generator.zip

Waiting on Ste to have some time to implement the changes back into his main code (mine has a lot of switches that he wouldn't use, kerning is an opt in thing for example)

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