Re: Image Manipulation/GD support

> reading the ./configure -h I see that they CHANGED what the configure > options mean. > now --with-freetype=dir refers to freetype 2 Untrue, it only refers to freetype2 when you are building against GD2. > phpinfo() says I have FreeType linkage. > But both ImageFtText and ImageTTFText fail to do anything. > > What is up with that? > > Perl is losing popularity because every time it updates scripts frequently > need some rewriting (that and cpan will grab the latest module and then > try to grab a newer perl instead of grabbing the module that works with > the installed perl- grrrr) > Hopefully php isn't going that route. > > Is this just a bug or has there been a major change? > I'm going to have to find myself trying php 4.0.6 and possibly reverting > back to 4.0.5 if I can't get this resolved. Works just fine for me. Play with your config.log and see what is failing. I use gd2 these days because the 8-bit limitation of gd1 just sucks. You can find my simple gd2 instructions here http://www.php.net/~rasmus/gd.html -Rasmus