PostScripts fonts can be slanted, stretched, and shrunk before being rendered on the canvas %imagepsslantfont($font, $slant)% - Slants a font by %$slant% %imagepsextendfont($font, $ratio)% - Streches / Shrinks font by %$ratio% In general, %$slant% is between 0 -> 1 (anything else is too hard to read) and %$ratio% is represents the shrink/strech ratio (+1.5 would strech by 50 percent, -.5 would shrink by 50 percent)