Re: enable truetype string function in gd

Okay! Apparently I have to supply the full path when using imagettfbbox and imagettftext - This definitely changed from gd-1.8.x to gd-2.x - might be a good idea to add this to the documentation??? But still - There's still an issue about the imageftbbox and imagefttext functions... Thomas Thomas Wentzel wrote: > > 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 > > -- > 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