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imagefontheight — Get font height
Returns the pixel height of a character in the specified font.
fontCan be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers correspond to larger fonts) or GdFont instance, returned by imageloadfont().
Returns the pixel height of the font.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 |
The font parameter now accepts both an GdFont instance
and an int; previously only int was accepted.
|
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
