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

ID: 12064 Updated by: joey Reported By: ben@kescom.net Old Status: Status: Feedback Bug Type: GD related Operating System: Windows 2000 SP1 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Fixing "null" status. So, is this a GD Bug, or a PHP bug? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-12 17:34:06] ben@kescom.net Ok, I checked out filemon. Here's what's happening: GD first tries to open files inside the Apache root (not the web root; for instance, on my box, C:\Program Files\Apache. So, if I've specified "C:\\path\\to\\font.ttf" in my path, I end up with: C:\Program Files\Apache\C\C:\path\to\font.ttf.ttf Next, it tries the current directory. However, it seems to be unable to process Windows drive letters, and so defaults to drive C: (my webroot's on D:, which is a problem), so I get C:\path\to\script\C:\path\to\font.ttf.ttf You get the idea. I made a directory structure on C: mimicing that of my D: webroot, but only containing the fonts; it worked fine (although the antialiasing was horrific, but that's a GD/FT2 issue). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-12 17:18:32] ben@kescom.net Pretty sure, but it doesn't work the other way around either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-12 16:08:57] wez@php.net Are you sure that GD understands d:/path/to/font.ttf as a path? Should it be d:\\path\\to\\font.ttf ? --Wez. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/?id=12064 Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12064&edit=1