#17666 [Com]: TTF-Fonts does not work

ID: 17666 Comment by: peter at kapege dot de Reported By: ulf at ecora dot de Status: Closed Bug Type: GD related Operating System: WinXP/Suse Linux PHP Version: 4.2.0 New Comment: My provider has php 4.2.3 and I sorrily can't upgrade his php... ;-) My code is this: ... $bild = $_GET["bild"]; header("Content-type: image/png"); $img = imagecreatefrompng("../bin/B_Jahr.png"); $hc = imagecolorallocate($img,0,0,0); $tsize = 11; $xpos = 7; $ypos = 15; imagettftext($img,$tsize,0,$xpos,$ypos,$hc,"../bin/comic.ttf",$bild); imagepng($img); imagedestroy($img); ... and it worked fine until my provider upgraded the version to 4.2.3. It's a huge German provider (1&1) and they are not able to upgrade quickly. Is there any workaround for the ttf-problem instead? Absolute path didn't work. Thankful Peter Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 12:47:56] ulf at ecora dot de I believe this bug is not fixed. Script E:\try\test\test.php Font E:\try\gd\font.ttf putenv("GDFONTPATH=E:\try\gd\"); imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 5, $grey, 'font.ttf', 'beep'); Apache.exe tried to open E:\try\gd\e:\try\test\font.ttf.ttf putenv("GDFONTPATH="); imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 5, $grey, 'font.ttf', 'beep'); Apache.exe tried to open C:\winnt\fonts\e:\try\test\font.ttf.ttf But my WinXP is in c:\XP. This hardcoded Path (C:\winnt\) is a bad idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-22 12:43:22] mfischer@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/. In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. You have to set the GDFONTPATH environment variable before yuo call the ttftext function, e.g. putenv("GDFONTPATH=..."); but chances may be that it doesn't work with the gd version 4.2.0 is linked against. However this is fixed in http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip , so closing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-22 11:55:23] ulf at ecora dot de @mfischer: I made a test with file_monitor on WinXP. TestScript: <?PHP $im = imagecreate(420,315); $grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 60, 60, 60); imagettftext($im, 80, 0, 20, 50, $grey, 'font.ttf', 'test'); ?> Path of the Testscript: E:\try\test.php4 The php.exe tried to open the fontfile (E:\try\font.ttf) on the following location: 17:44:45 php.exe FASTIO_QUERY_OPEN E:\usr\share\fonts\truetype\E:\try\font.ttf.ttf FAILURE I have not so much experience, but everywhere in the GD- or in the FreeType-code must be this fixed path:\usr\share\fonts\truetype\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-09 10:46:57] sniper@php.net I just had same kind of problem on Linux. And the reason was that the user my apache runs as did not have read access to the fonts. So you might wanna check that too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-09 09:13:17] rasmus@php.net Try it without the .ttf extension. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/17666 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17666&edit=1