Re: FN-FORUM: Ideas and thoughts on an online label design system

date posted 25th February 2008 20:23

Hello.

The GD libraries are quite comprehensive, and can produce nice looking
images when using true-type fonts, antialiasing and alpha levels. Of
course it'll be tricky getting the preview to look like the end result if
if your client then uses a different method to design the end results.
You could make a PHP/GD label design site quite complicated and
fully-featured, so it would be hard to guess how long it'd take to code.
A basic one should only take a couple of weeks.

Brian

>
> Good Evening all,
>
> I have been liaising with a good client of mine over designing a
> standalone label design application for him to add to his website.
> I know I could build this in PHP/MySQL, but I am concerned that the GD
> library and other drawing facilities would make the label preview look
> quite clumsy, which would ultimately affect the number of orders which
> are completed online, so I wanted to hear your thoughts:
>
> - Online
> - Admin area to be able to add label sizes, clipparts/graphics for
> user to use, possibly even manage fonts
> - Customer would be taken through a wizard, asking them for anything
> from the size, to choosing a logo/clippart or uploading their own,
> text and finally providing a preview onscreen and a cost based on a
> quantity supplied by the user.
>
> Any ideas on technology and costs, and availability...if I don't end
> up doing, I would need to recommend someone who can!
>
> Regards,
> Duncan
>
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