GD - putting out ttf text

[scarenius]

What's the best way to start a new line? In frustration of "\n" going to a new line but not returning to original X starting point (AKA the left side) I finally coded it to run each line in it's own imagettftext() function, which I believe just caused me to get my account suspended.

That's twice I've had this little problem this year..

[Vin DSL]

How about using a 'bounding box' (imagettfbbox)?

[scarenius]

Tried, wrong GD library. I can't run the function.

The image size wasn't the problem, that was dynamically resized along with the image, there was a bit of math workaround but I didn't need imagettfbbox().

The problem was having to run imagettftext() for every new line of text on the image. Usually 3 lines per image, and it ran a different quote per each request.

[scarenius]

UPDATE: I didn't spend enough time reading the user comments on PHP.net's documentation. Turns out the GD library handles return carriages differently. \r returns to the horizontal starting point, and \n starts a new line.

So if you're using the GD library to generate images, use "\n\r" or "\r\n" to start new lines.