Hi,
That sounds like trouble to me. It’s probably going to be one of those deals where the client thinks they’re going to have all kinds of oh, so cute fonts, preferably gigantic, all over their site. Of course they don’t know that getting zillions of random fonts isn’t browser-friendly at all.
Even if you could get something like that working, using tons of programming skill, I foresee the whining that will begin when they suddenly find that their site looks terrible, and want you to rescue them, over and over. A normal client WYSIWYG nightmare, which I’ve seen time and time again. 🙂
If they want crazy fonts, then using embedded fonts and CSS you could get them some of that, and control it so the site might actually look decent, and you can charge extra for it!
On the other hand, maybe they just want some crazy font big logos. They can simply use the free logo generators all over the place, save the logo, and stick it on the site. No WP integration needed.
I’ll light some candles for you!
Dave
if it can be done in .NET/.ASP, it probably could be done in PHP. The question is what exactly is wanted? A copy of that lettering/signage creation tool in PHP?
What is wanted is copy of that lettering creation tool to be integrated into their wordpress site. I just assumed with that being the request id have to go the route of PHP
Without actually coding it, I’ll say you’ll probably need to use the GD functions like imagettftext and Better FreeType2 for effects like italics.
You already have hardest part, IMO the interface, designed for you so that isn’t the hard part. The part you’ll need to figure out is how the backend generates the letterings on the fly.
Not sure if you even need to put the code in a plugin. It might be simpler to code it in a page and use that as a template specifically for this function.
