I have compiled and installed freetype 2.0.1 and gd 1.8.1......the php configure script finds the libs ok....however gd still isn't compiled with true type font support....someone MUST have a solution for what i'm dealing with here....look : checking whether to enable FTP support... yes checking whether to enable truetype string function in gd... no checking for libjpeg (needed by gd-1.8+)... yes checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... yes checking for libXpm (needed by gd-1.8+)... no configure: warning: If configure fails try --with-xpm-dir=<DIR> checking whether to include GD support... yes (static) checking for gdImageString16 in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImagePaletteCopy in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageColorClosestHWB in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for compress in -lz... (cached) yes checking for png_info_init in -lpng... (cached) yes checking for gdImageColorResolve in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromGif in -lgd... (cached) no checking for gdImageWBMP in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromJpeg in -lgd... (cached) no checking for gdImageCreateFromXpm in -lgd... (cached) yes checking whether to include FreeType 1.x support... no checking for T1lib support... no -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]