Bug #12064 Updated: Truetype functions can't locate fonts

ID: 12064 Updated by: wez Reported By: ben@kescom.net Old Summary: Truetype functions can't locate fonts Status: Feedback Bug Type: GD related Operating System: Windows 2000 SP1 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Are you sure that GD understands d:/path/to/font.ttf as a path? Should it be d:\\path\\to\\font.ttf ? --Wez. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-12 16:00:10] dbeu@php.net please use filemon (www.sysinternals.com) to find out where php/gd is searching for the fonts, and report back. thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-12 15:40:36] ben@kescom.net Rasmus: I did some reading through the GD docs; it seems that GD uses an environment variable called GDFONTPATH to locate its fonts when no path is specified (this seems to imply that the proper extension would also be appended). However, setting this properly did not work. The documentation also says that a full path will be accepted (with .ttf ending) if specified as a parameter. Seems like a problem with the way PHP is passing the string, perhaps. I would play with the source, but I don't have a compiler for this environment right now; it seems that people are not having this problem on Unices, so I won't bother looking there. Any clue? Thanks, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-12 14:36:33] rasmus@php.net No idea about the Windows version, but on UNIX the new GD2 library is hardcoded to look for TTF fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Also, it automatically adds the .ttf extension itself so in your code you should not put the .ttf extension on your font. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-11 15:03:28] ben@kescom.net The GD TrueType functions can't find fonts; relative paths and absolute paths both do not work. Example (font is in the local directory, and . is part of my php.ini include_path) <? $image = ImageCreateTrueColor(200,200); ImageTTFText($image, 20, 0, 2, 15, $red, "d:/path/to/font.ttf", "Some text."); header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); // alternatively, ImageTTFText($image, 20, 0, 2, 15, $red, "font.ttf", "Some text."); header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); ImageJPEG($image, '', 100); ImageDestroy($image); ?> (written off the top of my head, it's in a larger script, but test scripts I wrote and unfortunately deleted don't work either) PHP reports: Warning: Could not find/open font in d:\path\to\fonttest.php on line 3 This is from the binary Win32 distribution of PHP 4.0.6 on php.net. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12064&edit=1