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23rd September, 2009
Wednesday

Facelift SIFR alternative using text->image replacement

Facelift, it's nothing new, been out for a while now, but why blog about it?

For one, I just want to give it more coverage, because it is a great alternative to SIFR, the other font replacement technique used in today's websites.

I don't think I need to advertise it more, if you want more information I'm sure you can look it up yourselves.

I do want to document a problem however with Facelift as I'm using it for a project at the moment.

Facelift currently does not work with PHP 5.3. This is because PHP 5.3 has a bug that prevents it from operating properly. More specifically it is to do with the bounding box calculation used in the GD library. This bug is supposedly fixed in the latest SVN but PHP has not yet released a production ready fix yet. So we have to spray and prey for now.

Later

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