I get the height of the truetype text boundary box (the width is fixed). For the wrapping I used some code I got off the PHP site and modified it so that it actually worked. I couldn't be bothered to spend half a day working out how to wrap ttf text.
Once I work out the height of the text I create an image that height + the height of the kittin image + some gaps. I then draw the speechbubble to surround the text, fill it in with the background colour. I then stick the text on, load in the kittin and copy it onto the text image. I then squirt it out as a GIF.
Hurrah!
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:32,
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The staging server i leech off hasn't got php installed..
... i'm using an ASP dll that's pretty nifty, albeit gay cos its ASP...
They don't like to refer to their humble origins. I think it doesn't really stand for anything these days, or if it does it's something like Pre-Hypertext Processor.
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:40,
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unless you're a cultural snob in this place you can't post any pictures that relate to things the rest of the country might have seen. (They've all watched it anyway, they just want to try and look all hard and street and cool and aloof)
(mushybeesNEBUSHI SHANGHUNG!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:03,
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(pzykoQuery failed.,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:02,
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i stuck mine together
with manglue in the first place!
(Wasp Boxlike a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55,
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prick~stick :)
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:56,
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Hurrah...
Now I need a Cut out and Keep Tree... (Hmm wonder how many B3ta regulars are available as cut out and keepers.. I Want 'em all)
(SpenfaceALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:48,
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How regular do you have to be
to be a regular?
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52,
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...as Clockwork...
I dunno... There's Zombies and robots and all sorts... oh I dunno I've seen a couple... Basically I just want many Cut out and make things to live on my desk and make me happy.
(SpenfaceALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55,
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Well
you can have the 2D cut-out I made just for you. :)
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:57,
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Yay.. You are a star!
I can drive it round my desk Going Vroom vroom tweet! Vroom vroom tweet! Vroom vroom tweet! (Until I get Sacked) *Gets big Plastic Safety Scissors*
Craft Hour Everyone!
(SpenfaceALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:59,
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i'd like something by the neville
it'd be a guaranteed talking point
(mictoboyshitting in your cunt since,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:01,
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A cut-out,
or something he excreted?
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:05,
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i like making things challenges. can't be doing with all this 2d stuff.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52,
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If my computer would recognise the network printer, I would probably print it
Also: What new bugs come with Media player 10? Mp wants to update
(davew27hevosen kuva!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52,
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it's not an update of 10, it's giving you 11 instead.
it nearly got me the other day. i started to install before i realised. i had 11 installed a couple of months ago but chucked it out because i like good old 10.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:58,
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it's vista all over
(pzykoQuery failed.,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:05,
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we're all doomed!
(urbane legendi have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52,
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Woo!
If I had a tree, i would stick the tip right up Andrew MacDavies arse
It is, of course, satire and I would DEFINITELY NOT recommend or condone anyone copying it and emailing it to everyone they know, especially the people they know who will almost certainly pass it on to everyone in their address book, even if Coca Cola have been blatantly nicking the ideas of fellow b3tans. So please DO NOT PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE, PRETENDING THAT IT IS TRUE!
FW: Coca Cola Warning – please read!
FDA try to ban Coca Cola!
I don’t want to scare anyone but this information has come from a friend of mine who is actually a governmental food safety scientist so I thought this was worth passing on. If you know anyone who drinks Coca Cola, please also pass it on to them so they are warned as well.
Apparently the FDA were considering banning Coca Cola earlier this year after a whistle-blower high up in the Coca-Cola Corporation passed them information which is generally kept secret. Both the whistle blower and the FDA scientist who tried to bring this information to light have been fired and may even be subject to prosecution due to the political pressure to avoid another large scandal involving a huge corporation and the possible damage to the economy like what happened with Enron.
Part of the information came from the Norwegian Health and Safety Authority (AHS) who last year closed down a large Coca Cola plant, fined the company $4,700,000, recalled all Coca Cola products from the market and are currently considering banning the company from selling in their country permanently.
The Norwegian site was closed down due to several things found when their inspectors visited the site:
• Company toilet seats being washed in the same machines used for washing parts of the industrial mixers, bowls etc. used for making Coca Cola products. • The process of ‘fining’ (removal of cloudiness from the product) was carried out using proteins derived from cow blood – a practice which has been banned in Europe for well over a decade due to the chance of passing on BSE – Mad cow disease. This practice is still legal in the US. • The lining of Coca Cola cans uses recycled plastic from polyethylene trepththalate (PET) which contains diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) which is a known carcinogen. Both these things are discouraged by the FDA, which is why you see warnings not to re-use plastic mineral water bottles. • The fungicide used in the lining of the cans and also in minute quantities to preserve the cola itself is known by its brand name of Acesulfame K (you can even see it on the list of ingredients!). The Norwegian chemists determined that it was actually a derivative of the herbicide 2-4-D….also known as Agent Orange. • Customer complaints not being reported to the government safety authorities – the main breach being several complaints about people contracting Leptospirose poisoning from drinking Coca Cola straight from the can. It turns out that the pest control was not adequate in their warehouses and rats were leaving traces of urine on the cans stored there. Fortunately, nobody died…but doctors say that it was really only a matter of time.
The scariest thing is that the practices and procedures used at this site were the standard Coca Cola corporation procedures used all over the world. Unfortunately, the FDA (and presumably the authorities in other countries) do not really do anything about this as the Coca Cola corporation is so huge and pays so much money to politicians to support political parties, money to lobby and pressure groups and even pays large yearly fines to the FDA to allow them to make false calorie claims on their cans – as they believe that the money made from selling “low calorie” versions of Coke is worth more than the fines they pay for misleading labelling.
Most companies would be prosecuted for repeated breaches of the FDA labelling laws but Coca Cola corporation can apply so much political pressure that these things are swept under the rug and ignored.
I don’t know about you, but I’m really put off from drinking Coca Cola any more! And I shall definitely be telling people why. Please send this to your friends and loved ones who may otherwise be drinking Coke without knowing some of what really goes on!
(AfinkawanYes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20,
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huh
whaa?
(Zak McFlimbyTwibbling @McFlimby,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20,
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....
*Ignore*
(Grimmie- Breaking legal bounds since 1864,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20,
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TOO MUCH TEXT!!
and it still tastes better than Pepsi...
:D
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:21,
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meercats prefer pepsi
ran out of steam on this.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:33,
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"life is like tehThomas"?
/i don't speak spanish blog
(pzykoQuery failed.,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:45,
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nor me.
but it must be something to do with tomatoes
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:50,
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.
(FlexAluxlaughed at something inappropriate on,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:51,
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Hmm, an interesting image chalange
Ways to take the piss out of coke (or put piss in it, what ever you prefer)
Every entry must have the url for Rob's video clip on it.
pray tell, is there a speach bubble plug-in for tattyshop or do you all draw these freehand, as it were.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:41,
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right click it
it's a magic script wank
(mictoboyshitting in your cunt since,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:43,
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It is all done
with the beautiful magic of PHP's GD library.
I draw four corner quater-arcs, two bottom quarter-arcs for the bottom curvy bit, and then join them all up with lines as if they were dots. Hurrah!
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:48,
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oh!
i'll pretend to understand and stick to trying to find a nice easy set of ready made bubbles to steal. i'll stick to doing similar freehand bubble making in the mean time.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:56,
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I plan
on doing one myself soon, for purposes of hilarity!
(The NevilleWhat what what,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:02,
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Doing what?
A speech bubble? That's hardly funny.
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:09,
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pfft
Mine will be hilarious though. As it'll contain at least 78% ham.
And it'll be suspended about three feet to the left of MY REAL HEAD!
(The NevilleWhat what what,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:13,
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(mediocreha ha ha, you're reading this,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:15,
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I hadn't.
But I have now.
I'm scared.
Hold my hand?
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:19,
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nah
just refresh it a couple more times...it'll grow on you ;)
(mediocreha ha ha, you're reading this,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:26,
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if you need speech bubbles
there are some nice vectored ones available here along with some of the best free comic fonts you can get /spam
although they're vectors, Photoshop (CS2 at least) imports .eps files by converting them to bitmaps. you can even define the scale factor beforehand
(pzykoQuery failed.,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55,
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ta muchly.
i knew there must be some somewhere. i'm such a lazy bugger.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:01,
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*abuses*
(The Alchemistking of the needlessly complicated,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:44,
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It doesn't.
I couldn't be bothered to make it do that.
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:49,
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fair enough
does it spellcheck? handle html entities? eh? eh?
only joking.
(The Alchemistking of the needlessly complicated,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52,
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the swear filter works on the text still :)
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55,
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HA HA!
No, but if you want to use some special characters (like the humblem question mark) then you'll need to know the url hexcode for it. URL encoding is different from HTML you see. Hexcodes are the future.
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55,
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Hexcodes
burned my hamster
(The NevilleWhat what what,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:03,
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Good.
(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:07,
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(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:30,
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I DIDN'T READ IT ALL
but i don't drink coke, so i don't care
(mictoboyshitting in your cunt since,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22,
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WORDS!
WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
Words all fail the magic prize, Nothing I can say when I'm in your thighs!
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:25,
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word up
(Wasp Boxlike a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:35,
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shut your mouth
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:38,
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LINES AND LINES AND LINES AND LINES!!!
(Droogis too orangey for crows,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:47,
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Yay...
I'll be sending it to some EMail Bombers I know...
(SpenfaceALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:23,
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if you were a noob
you'd be dead by now.
(drbroonabloooobloobloo,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:24,
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yeah but he isn't so gets away with it...
go figure.
(darth munkiis flipping livid,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27,
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flame him if you like
i'm not stopping you
edit: and the replies are hardly full of praise
go figure
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:28,
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^This
(AfinkawanYes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:29,
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*kicks in shins*
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:34,
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If i drink cow's blood...
will my piss be less cloudy?
(drbroonabloooobloobloo,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:37,
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hehe
was just being cheeky.
words though. words. words words words.
(drbroonabloooobloobloo,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:31,
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I know this is untrue
as will everyone in my address book, and everyoine in their address books, and everyone in their address books and everyone in their address books and the internets broked
please could someone enlighten me about this coke thing in less than 15 words and without recourse to video?
(Wasp Boxlike a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:26,
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^This
(wibblywobbly- helping ugly people get laid since 1982,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27,
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They nicked ideas* off of Joel Veitch
for an ad campaign.
*copied
(AfinkawanYes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27,
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what's all the cow's stomach lining and loo brush stuff then?
:P
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:31,
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We're playing...
..."lets make this falsehood viral!" so we can all get to appear on Snopes.
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:47,
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can't be bothered to check
but isn't it all already on snopes, and isn't it all from an email that did go viral about 5 years ago?
(Wasp Boxlike a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:49,
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Some of it probably is on Snopes
mostly just half remembered stuff from a variety of emails mashed together with some new made-up stuff.
(AfinkawanYes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:20,
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Coca Cola...
...have pretty much ripped off Joel Veitch's Ninja Kitten / 7 seconds of Love video.
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:28,
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I see
thank you both
(Wasp Boxlike a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:32,
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That is a lot of words.
But I hope it ensures their profits drop, even a little, to make Joel feel a bit better.
On another TJ note - what is that soft cheese roll covered in almonds (possibly orange or apricot flavoured) called? It comes in orangey hexagonal cardboard tubes.
I want to use it for the final installment of Fists Of CHEESE.
Thanks.
Sorry, as you were.
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:26,
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Snickers. One of those limited editions.
Didn't sell terribly well. *Starts thinking about potential soundtracks*
Was just about to write a reply slating this email and how ridiculous it was for a B3tan to get fooled enough by this to post it here...
And then I read the top bit. Oops :'(
(Imaginary Edwas dreamed up on,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:38,
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*Glorns*
Having had a nice lie-in, Vlad is dreaming of what would happen if he had arms. So far he's thought of juggling, carrying crates of vodka around, and tickling unsuspecting strangers.
What're you lot up to today? ps. What would vlad do with arms?
(Grimmie- Breaking legal bounds since 1864,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:18,
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he'd touch himself
whilst thinking of me of course!
today i am still finishing off my magazine pages oh, and dreaming about what i'll have for lunch
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:19,
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(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:19,
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*punts*
woo! i scored a field goal!!
:P
(Ironman tetsuoBack once again with the renegade mastah!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22,
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hm
(alnappB3ta? Oh I just remembered about that and posted @,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27,
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vlad with arms?
he'd try to wank off then realise there's still a crucial part missing then shoot himself in the head body
(pzykoQuery failed.,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20,
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(wheelybirdmreee!,
Wed 13 Dec 2006, 11:42,
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I'd really prefer it if you didn't
I tend to behave myself on the board, and think I've earned a little lee-way when I'm having a shit day and am just trying to cheer myself up with a bit of fluff.
I made something to make me smile, and thought I'd share. Now I feel like shit just because I had the wrong image up for a few minutes