Re: Support of freetype2/gd in PHP4-dev?
| From: | Marko Karppinen | Date: | Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:36:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Support of freetype2/gd in PHP4-dev? | ||
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> this is another request for clarification: The new Freetype 2 library
> apparently doesn't link with the latest gd (1.8.3), so i'm thinking it
> can't be used with php4-dev either. So what is the new configure option
> '--enable-gd-imgstrttf' being used for? With Freetype 1 it falls to 'no'
> anyway, no matter whether you explicitely enable it or not. What is the
> hidden '--enable-gd-native-ttf' configure parameter used for? Is someone
> going to upgrade the freetype support to v2 (i think this one has much
> better antialiasing support...)? Isn't this all a gd issue?
Michael,
FreeType 2 introduces a new and improved API that is incompatible with the
older one. Luckily, FreeType 2 also includes legacy support for the old API;
see the FreeType documentation for information on how to utilize it.
However, the legacy API in FreeType 2 doesn't support the improved features
such as the better antialiasing support. Frankly, I don't expect support for
these to appear in either PHP or GD very soon.
Marko