Re: enable truetype string function in gd

I realized that just after posting my question... Though solving my configure problem I still can't get freetype to work... I had everything running under php-4.0.4 (including gd and freetype 1.x) However due to the patent issues it is necessary for me to use freetype2 which isn't too bad in itself ;) Well... I saw an "old" submission from Wez claiming that the problems I were experiencing wasn't a PHP problem, but rather a gd problem. I tried out the little C program he included and true enough - The problem was, that gd for some reason didn't include TrueType support (allthough everything suggested that it ought to)... Well after searching high and low - I found this excellent :) link, http://www.alt-php-faq.org/local/68/ , which says that gd-1.8.x doesn't support freetype2 - and how to successfully compile gd and freetype into PHP. I realize that this has little to do as such with the forum of this mailing list, but I also believe, that many get their first experience with gd end freetype when trying to compile it into php, which sort of justifies my entry ;) Ho hum... Now I have everything up and running - or so it would seem, but when I try to utilize the imagettfbbox og imagettftext functions I get an error saying "Could not find/open font". In light of the troubles with gd and freetype - it would seem likely that this problem also stems from that and not PHP - but I'm asking here anyway - because it seems that this forum is much more active than the various gd and freetype forums. Another thing... I ran through the ext/gd sources and found some functions (not included in the manual pages) namely imageftbbox and imagefttext, but whenever I try to use these functions I get an error saying that freetype2 support wasn't included in the PHP build (??) Can anybody shed some light on this? Thomas Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > I try to get the above mentioned to work with the 4.0.6 release on > > Linux! > > > > But even though I provide the configure script with the > > --enable-gd-native-ttf > > switch, it reports that the feature is a no go > > There was a slight buglet in 4.0.6. Use > > --enable-gd-native-tt > > instead. > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net