Bug #12956 Updated: libgd2 + TTF = ugly fonts.

ID: 12956 Updated by: sniper Reported By: php-bugs@c0de.net Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: GD related Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux PHP Version: 4.0CVS-2001-08-25 New Comment: Not a PHP bug then.. --Jani Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-25 16:59:27] rasmus@php.net Yes, this is known. Anti-aliasing of TTF fonts in GD2 only works with paletted images. No idea why. Try asking the GD folks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-25 13:47:49] php-bugs@c0de.net More on the problem. (This could be a libGD bug, but the libGD test works fine, but I'm not sure if its doing the same thing) This is from the ./configure to show that it is configured right (I have removed some lines to make it shorter): checking whether to include GD support... yes checking whether to enable truetype string function in gd... yes checking for freetype(2)... yes checking whether to include include FreeType 1.x support... no checking whether to include T1lib support... yes checking for T1_LoadFont in -lt1... yes checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... yes checking for gdImageCreateFromJpeg in -lgd... yes checking for gdImageCreateTrueColor in -lgd... Yes So here is the script: <?php Header ("Content-type: image/jpeg"); $im = imagecreatetruecolor (400, 30); $black = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); $white = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, "/Fonts/arial.ttf", "Testing... Omega: &#937;"); ImageJPEG ($im); ImageDestroy ($im); ?> I have also found out if I do not use truecolor, then the font is ok, but if I create from a jpeg or png, I get crap fonts. I guess its a truecolor problem. I dont know if it is in PHP or in GD. Maybe I'm posting this to the wrong place. Is anyone else using libGD2 and truecolor TTF graphics? Here is some samples that I made: http://rtfm.c0de.net/helpfiles/ttf-test.html Thank you for your help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-25 07:50:48] sniper@php.net First, create a short but complete example script and include it here so we can test it. Second, you should use the correct paths for the configure options: --with-freetype-dir=/usr And btw. This configure option is for freetype2. ( --with-ttf is for freetype 1.x ) Also note that GD2 is in BETA. This might instead being a bug in PHP, be a bug in GD2. --Jani ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-25 03:15:14] php-bugs@c0de.net It all started when my boss wanted better looking thumbnails. I found that imagecopyresampled() would make better thumbnails. It requires libgd2 for it to work. I removed libgd1 and installed libgd2. The thumbnails are great now, but the ttf's are very bad. They are larger and I think that the anti-alias is turned off or something. I went back to libgd1 and the fonts look good. I downloaded the CVS php4 and tried with that, still same problem. I can't use libgd2 and have nice fonts. I can't use libgd1 and have nice thumbnails. I'm stuck. Here is my configure line: ./configure --with-apxs=/www/bin/apxs --enable-track-vars --enable-trans-sid --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-pgsql --without-mysql --with-imap --with-openssl and also: ./configure --with-apxs=/www/bin/apxs --enable-track-vars --enable-trans-sid --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf --with-t1lib --with-pgsql --without-mysql --with-imap --with-openssl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12956&edit=1