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You can get the bounds of the text box using the stringFT() method, but you will need to load up a truetype font first - see the "Character and String Drawing" section in the GD docs.

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Re^2: Centering Text with GD::Image
by djlerman (Sexton) on Nov 03, 2021 at 21:37 UTC
    Will this not work with the built in fonts? I am using gdGiantFont.
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      According to GD#Font-Utilities, gdGiantFont is a fixed width (monospace) 9x15 font, so unless I'm very much mistaken, it's just 9*nChars to get the width, and the height is a fixed 15 per line of text.

      edit and it's got the width and height methods to tell you those numbers in the code.

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