create image from html

Question

i want to create an image from html, i couldn't use painty since it is outdated and no longer working and i want something similar. i have already tried to create image using GD library like this

<?php
$html_code = "<b> this is the body </b> "; 
// Create the image 
 $img = imagecreate("300", "600"); 
 imagecolorallocate($img,0,0,0); 
 $c = imagecolorallocate($img,70,70,70); 
 imageline($img,0,0,300,600,$c2); 
 imageline($img,300,0,0,600,$c2); 

$white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255); 
imagettftext($img, 9, 0, 1, 1, $white, "arial.ttf", $html_code); 

// Display the image 
header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); 
imagejpeg($img);

but it doesn't "compile" the html tags and prints them in the image as text.

Best Regards

Answer 1

the GD lib does not have the ablilty to render html-code and draw it on the image. if you want to draw bold text you need to use bold font, e.g. arialbd.ttf