I have been looking around for a while to find a script which does the following: generates image with text using specified font with given color, but with totally transparent background (by alpha-channnel, not via color transparency). Finally, I have created the script by myself. It's just a rough idea how to do it.
<?php
$tekst = "This is a test message\nza???? g??l? ja??!\nZA?ӣ? GʦL? JA???";
$h = 9;
$size = imageTTFBBox($h, 0, "arial.ttf", $tekst);
$image = imageCreateTrueColor(abs($size[2]) + abs($size[0]), abs($size[7]) + abs($size[1]));
imageSaveAlpha($image, true);
ImageAlphaBlending($image, false);
$tlo = imagecolorallocatealpha($image, 220, 220, 220, 127);
imagefill($image, 0, 0, $tlo);
$napis = imagecolorallocate($image, 220, 220, 220);
imagettftext($image, $h, 0, 0, abs($size[5]), $napis, "arial.ttf", $tekst);
imagepng($image, "output.png");
imagedestroy($image);
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#808080">
<img src="output.png" alt="">
</body>
</html>
