I am trying to do the following:

1. A user types in a text box a string "Hello"
2. They choose a Font (Arial, Times, etc)
3. They click "Go" for lack of a better term

Now is the hard part, I want to read the text string that they typed in and create an image using whatever font they selected. Basically it will check the encoded version of each character the user typed in and match it to the character in the font. Any ideas of any way to read in a Font and output an Image from that font?

Any help is appreciated...

Thanks.