when you say it doesn't work, do you mean that you get an error message or it just doesn't write the text to the image?
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] image generation issues Hi, I'm using the code in the manual to draw text on a png. but Its not working - ImageString() works but not ImageTTFText() I uploaded arial.ttf from windows to fonts/ folder Any Ideas: as a side note: PNG's - any real disadvantage to using them instead of gifs - not withstanding the compuserve issue and old browsers. the code button.php <?php Header ("Content-type: image/png"); $im = imagecreate (400, 30); $black = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); $white = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, "fonts/arial.ttf","Testing... Omega: Ω"); ImagePng ($im); ImageDestroy ($im); ?> and i call it with <img src="button.php" border="0" alt="">