function imagestringdown(&$image, $font, $x, $y, $s, $col)
{
$width = imagesx($image);
$height = imagesy($image);
$text_image = imagecreate($width, $height);
$white = imagecolorallocate ($text_image, 255, 255, 255);
$black = imagecolorallocate ($text_image, 0, 0, 0);
$transparent_colour = $white;
if ($col == $white)
$transparent_color = $black;
imagefill($text_image, $width, $height, $transparent_colour);
imagecolortransparent($text_image, $transparent_colour);
imagestringup($text_image, $font, ($width - $x), ($height - $y), $s, $col);
imagerotate($text_image, 180.0, $transparent_colour);
imagecopy($image, $text_image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height);
}