imagettftext function using font from remote server

Question

I am creating an image form font size, font family, font color in php. Everything was working fine until I got a new requirement. I was using ttf files and passing the path of particular ttf file in imagettftext function as a parameter. Now I am using google fonts and I am not getting an idea how to get the font in my function. I tried using couple of things such as passing

1.http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine<br/>
2.http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/abel/v3/RpUKfqNxoyNe_ka23bzQ2A.ttf

But not getting any thing.

Answer 1

first download the ttf file

$font = file_get_contents("http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/abel/v3/RpUKfqNxoyNe_ka23bzQ2A.ttf");
file_put_contents("font.ttf", $font); //be sure to save the font in the path you have provided as font path.

then you can safely use "font.ttf" with imagettftext

 imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, "font.ttf", $text);