Generating bold text inside an image from a .ttf file using a php method

Hi again,

I’ve been searching all over and the closest I came to somehow achieving bold text (kind of) was to generate the same text multiple times in the same image slightly offset from each other. But it looks really crappy.

Is this possible? I wish there were something like imagecreateboldttftext() but I can’t find anything like that. Does anybody know of any method to get bold text that doesn’t look extremely ugly (preferably to look exactly or as close as possible like if it were a regular font and the <B> tag were applied).

Thanks a lot,
Douglas

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