ImgTTFMenu (Image True Type Font Menu) Module

ImgTTFMenu allow You to create easily sophisticated graphical menu without creating/uploading own images.

'Image TTF Menu' module help You make Your site template more attractive in rapid and simple way.


Main features are:
- images are created 'on the fly'. You do not need to create/upload pictures to have graphic menu
- cursor over (mouse hover) can change the picture
- background could be transparent, filled by color or could be an image
- creating menu that have only caption replaced by image
- template remain the same - all features of original Joomla menu
- 100% compatible with Joomla original menu
- from version 0.2.7 PHP 4.3.10 and later supported
- very simple installation: just install and publish module (one click)

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bynonki212 on October 2, 2009
hello all
i have a friend with demands, one of his demands was to use his own font in the top menu.
after trying many other codes and component , plugin, i found this module.
it works smooth and very us full.
install in less then a click of a button and was totally adjust to my site in less then 5 minutes.
thank you so much
:)
byedkiefer on August 5, 2009
This is just what I was looking for. Great job! I've been searching for a menu system that I could have multiple menus in my template. Yours did the job.
byciuly on June 29, 2009
I spent almost a day on making this work, first of all because I didn't have a freetype enabled gd, even though I did have freetype installed, so I had to rebuild everything.
Then, I was using transparent backround and as any normal person out there I did not bother to read the hints of each config option so naturally I did not set the background color, making things look bad so I upgraded my freetype to latest and had to rebuild yet again (I have to learn how to upgrade without rebuilding everything).
Anyway, eventually I got around RTFM-ing after exhausting every other option, just like any other normal person :D and that solved it.
My menu troubles came to an end. The exact width combined with centering helps on creating a nice horizontal menu. It rocks :)
bybbw on May 20, 2009
needed something quick to use with graphics since the template I was using didn't already have it in the styles - rather than write it or try to copy it from another template, this did the trick much more quickly. Cool!
bymhunterjones on April 22, 2009
Its amazing! I just spent hours making mouseover images for a rollover menu...too bad i didnt find this module first! you never need to do that again - also, dont need to upload all those images! you just upload your font instead, and it uses that font ttf file to generate the graphic menu links. and then you can choose a rollover color and it will switch to that image when you mouseover. fantastic -
bybigbabou on January 4, 2009
very good module, exactly what I'm looking for for a long time and it works very well.
It could be great if there is a plugin to do the same thing in content article.
bynanu on November 5, 2008
I wanted to create a menu using a custom font face and ImgTTFMenu did the job. I didn't find it difficult to use and after just slight tweaking, I had my menu looking like I wanted. Thanks for this unique and useful extension!
byxavierf on November 1, 2008
Very simple to install and to use for a great effect

Thanks
I'm not a big fan of images for menus (because of accessibility concerns), but if it's a requirement for your project then this module will do nicely. It generates images for your menu text + rollover images, both can be based on a background image and there are the necessary parameters for font color, padding etc.

Only caveat is that it doesn't work properly on PHP 4 (tested with PHP 4.4 and 4.8), it inserts the images after the menu text instead of replacing the text with images. But then PHP 4 is outdated anyway.
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Thanks for Your effort. That information is very useful.

byw8MYm8 on May 12, 2008
It is a great module, thank you for it ;)