Re: is GD being actively maintained?

hi Lester, On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Rasmus Schultz wrote: >> >> Thank you - this confirms I'm not crazy, or at least it's evidence to >> support that theory;-) >> >> It may be OS specific - perhaps the Windows and OSX binaries are built >> against a different build (or configuration) of FreeType? > > > Rasmus > Something that is also worth bearing in mind is that even in native > applications, fonts behave a little strange at times. Certainly in windows > we used to have fun between different versions of windows rendering text in > slightly different sizes, and today I have to ask some customers to change > fonts where they have picked up some nice new fancy one, but on Linux it > wraps at different places to Windows or Mac. I certainly remember having to > 'adjust' box sizes on native applications so that the W98 app displayed the > same on W2k. As this is true, it is unrelated to GD. GD uses Freetype on all supported platforms. > While it would be nice to accurately render a pdf document to a printer, > there is no accurate base to a browser window so we live with things being a > little random when rendered, and often a browser will 'scale' fonts > differently when you zoom them. So personally I just live with the fact that > infrastructure is not as good as perhaps we would like? Unrelated, PDF texts are vectors, GD renders on bitmap directly. > I doubt that this is purely a PHP bug though? Please see my other reply for the actual possible causes. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org