RE: [PHP] image generation issues

unfortunately, the unix php version I've got access to doesn't have support for TTFs :( but the Windows box does - I have to specify the full path to the font - try that and see if that helps. -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Murphy [mailto:adrian.murphy@2020tourism.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:04 PM To: Martin Towell; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] image generation issues i get 'Could not read font in..' i set permissions to 777 on both file and folder ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Towell" <martin.towell@world.net> To: "'Adrian Murphy'" <adrian.murphy@2020tourism.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] image generation issues > when you say it doesn't work, do you mean that you get an error message or > it just doesn't write the text to the image? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Murphy [mailto:adrian.murphy@2020tourism.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:16 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] image generation issues > > > 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=""> >