Okay!
Apparently I have to supply the full path when using imagettfbbox and
imagettftext - This definitely changed from gd-1.8.x to gd-2.x - might
be
a good idea to add this to the documentation???
But still - There's still an issue about the imageftbbox and imagefttext
functions...
Thomas
Thomas Wentzel wrote:
>
> I realized that just after posting my question... Though solving my
> configure problem I still can't get freetype to work...
> I had everything running under php-4.0.4 (including gd and freetype 1.x)
> However due to the patent issues it is necessary for me to use freetype2
> which isn't too bad in itself ;)
> Well...
> I saw an "old" submission from Wez claiming that the problems I were
> experiencing wasn't a PHP problem, but rather a gd problem. I tried out
> the little C program he included and true enough - The problem was, that
> gd for some reason didn't include TrueType support (allthough everything
> suggested that it ought to)... Well after searching high and low - I
> found
> this excellent :) link, http://www.alt-php-faq.org/local/68/ , which
> says
> that gd-1.8.x doesn't support freetype2 - and how to successfully
> compile
> gd and freetype into PHP. I realize that this has little to do as such
> with
> the forum of this mailing list, but I also believe, that many get their
> first
> experience with gd end freetype when trying to compile it into php,
> which sort
> of justifies my entry ;)
> Ho hum... Now I have everything up and running - or so it would seem,
> but when
> I try to utilize the imagettfbbox og imagettftext functions I get an
> error saying
> "Could not find/open font". In light of the troubles with gd and
> freetype - it would
> seem likely that this problem also stems from that and not PHP - but I'm
> asking here
> anyway - because it seems that this forum is much more active than the
> various gd and
> freetype forums.
> Another thing... I ran through the ext/gd sources and found some
> functions (not included
> in the manual pages) namely imageftbbox and imagefttext, but whenever I
> try to use these
> functions I get an error saying that freetype2 support wasn't included
> in the PHP build (??)
> Can anybody shed some light on this?
>
> Thomas
>
> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >
> > > I try to get the above mentioned to work with the 4.0.6 release on
> > > Linux!
> > >
> > > But even though I provide the configure script with the
> > > --enable-gd-native-ttf
> > > switch, it reports that the feature is a no go
> >
> > There was a slight buglet in 4.0.6. Use
> >
> > --enable-gd-native-tt
> >
> > instead.
> >
> > -Rasmus
> >
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