Thanks for reporting, Alex. This is related to a known
issue: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12271
On Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 8:29:53 AM UTC-7, Alex Kerr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use a font with PHP's imagettftext() and no matter what I do
> I get the "Warning: imagettftext(): Invalid font filename" error. The font
> file is at an external public URL - specifying this directly causes the
> error. So I then used file_get_contents() and file_put_contents() to put a
> copy of the file on Cloud Storage (which copied fine) and access with the
> standard 'gs://' file path in my imagettftext() call. This also causes the
> error. I've reviewed the PHP docs and tried every combination of filepath I
> can think of including putenv('GDFILEPATH='.[my gs:// path]) or putting a /
> or // in front of my gs:// filepath. Nothing works. putenv and getenv don't
> seem to work at all anyway!
>
> I also tried using the temp in memory drive on GAE ('vfs://') with same
> error. (And using 'vfs://' gives an error that it's read only which should
> not be the case!?)
>
> Looks like imagettftext() can only be used with read only fonts deployed
> statically with the app (which I can't do for various reasons - I have to
> access them dynamically).
>
> Anyone got any ideas!?
>
> Many thanks,
> Alex
>
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