Hi Dave,
Thanks for the compliment! :)
About TTF support in shared hosting... every decent hosting option should
support it. Though it is kind of an optional feature, it is as common as GD
itself (at least 9 out of 10 CAPTCHA scripts will rely on it). So if TTF
support is not installed, the hosting provider should install it. How they
should install it is up to them, and varies from system to system.
In other words, if TTF support is not installed and your hosting provider is
not willing to install it (or wants to charge you for that), either they don't
have a clue, or they want to take advantage of your needs... in both cases the
service sucks. We use CentOS boxes with DirectAdmin, and installing GD with TTF
support is part of the standard setup.
You cannot rely on ImageMagick, or the PHP ImageMagick extension being
installed, though some hosting companies support it. But GD with TTF, Freetype,
JPG and PNG support is pretty standard, like mbstring, cURL, or the sockets
extension.
Best Regards,
Rob
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-Original Message-
From: Dave M G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:49 AM
To: Andrés Robinet
Cc: 'PHP List'
Subject: Re: [PHP] Writing text into images, and setting text size
[SOLVED]
Rob,
Thank you for helping me through this.
'--enable-gd-native-ttf'
'--with-ttf'
This was the key information. I thought that having the GD modules
installed meant I had TTF support. But after I saw that, I realized
that
TTF support was a separate module within the GD library.
On my home Ubuntu environment, placing TTF support simply meant
installing the right package from the repository (which I found in
Synaptic by searching for PHP TTF).
I'm hoping that TTF support is reasonably common on web hosting
services, since I'm aspiring for my code to be portable.
In any case, you've helped me get to the point that I needed to get to,
so I am very grateful for your support.
Thanks.
--
Dave M G
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