Re: image generation issues

In article <00ce01c1b36b$46c0d640$02646464@ade>, adrian.murphy@2020tourism.com says... > Hi, > I'm using the code in the manual to draw text on a png. > but Its not working - ImageString() works but not ImageTTFText() > I uploaded arial.ttf from windows to fonts/ folder > Any Ideas: > as a side note: PNG's - any real disadvantage to using them > instead of gifs - not withstanding the compuserve issue and > old browsers. > > the code > button.php > <?php > Header ("Content-type: image/png"); > $im = imagecreate (400, 30); > $black = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); > $white = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); > ImageTTFText ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, "fonts/arial.ttf","Testing... Omega: > &#937;"); > ImagePng ($im); > ImageDestroy ($im); > ?> > and i call it with > <img src="button.php" border="0" alt=""> I think you will find that the font path in ImageTTFText needs to be an absolute path, or relative to the current working directory. It certainly isn't relative to the web root. To be absolutely certain, especially if you are likely to call this from anywhere in your web file structure, make the path absolute! -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi!