How many times have you wanted to use a very cool looking font for your website, but have withdrawn the idea because you thought that font won`t display properly in everyones’s system.

Well fear not, I had previously posted a tutorial on how you can use PHP to display those lines of texts which use some odd font, by automatically converting it to an image (Tutorial : Convert Text into transparent PNG Image using PHP), this way, you can easily display text with odd fonts.

Recently I found a very neat plugin which automatically converts any text (with font of your choice) into an image i.e from now on you don`t have to worry about text with different or odd fonts. They`ll be automatically converted into a compatible image via this plugin, And don`t worry about the image tag and all, this plugin manages everything

Plugin name : PHP / jQuery Image Replacement
Plugin Home Page/Demo : http://www.xanthir.com/pir/

Usage

The usage was pretty simple.

1. After unzipping the archive, Open pir.php and First set the fonts folder in the php page.
2. In your website, include jQuery and then include the jquery.pir.min.js (for production).

3. $(function() {
   $.pir.options.php="pir.php"; //compulsary to include the php which converts text to image.
   $("h1").pir({font: "yourfont.ttf", wrap: true}); //will enable automatic text warping.
   

   });

Pretty Simple huh ! Enjoy