Re: PHP Warning: imagettftext()

[Lou Baccari <baccari@xxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the additional mail but I found the variable GDFONTPATH should 
be GD_FONTPATH, the example below works for me now.

  putenv('GD_FONTPATH=' . realpath('.')); 




Lou Baccari wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After reading Practical PHP Programing I came across a reference that 
> said "On Unix machines, you may find PHP searches in 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype".  Well I find that my php script executes 
> successfully when I placing my arial.ttf file into 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory.
>
> So I tried using  "|putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));" and "$font 
> = dirname(__FILE__).'/arial.ttf';" and I can not over ride the 
> GDFONTPATH from search in | /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
> Do I have other options that will allow me to point to the ttf file 
> local to the php script?  Is this a bug ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lou
>
>
> Lou Baccari wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >  I'm trying to move a site over to the V5 of CentOS and I having 
> > > problems with php/gd/freetype.  It looks like my older
> > > systems which is running php-4.3.8-1.1, gd-2.0.15-1, 
> > > freetype-2.1.4-5 can execute the code successfully.
> > >
> > >  Now when I try to execute the same code on CentOS V5 with 
> > > php-5.2.6, php-gd-5.2.6, gd-2.0.33-9.4,
> > > freetype-2.2.1-20 the same piece of code fails with the error:
> > > " *[Mon Jul 21 13:13:11 2008] [error] [client 137.203.140.206] PHP 
> > > Warning:  imagettftext() [<a 
> > > href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not 
> > > read font in /www/html/template/lou2.php on line 10
> > > [Mon Jul 21 13:13:11 2008] [error] [client 137.203.140.206] PHP 
> > > Warning:  imagettftext() [<a 
> > > href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not 
> > > read font in /www/html/template/lou2.php on line 11
> > > **"*
> > >
> > >  I read through php.net and marc.info but I have not yet found a 
> > > solution,  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Lou
> > >
> > > code ============================
> > >
> > >
> > > <?php
> > > //header("Content-type: image/png");
> > > $im = imagecreate(400, 30);
> > > $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
> > > $grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128);
> > > $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
> > > $text = 'BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBleh...';
> > > $font = 'arial.ttf';
> > > putenv( 'GDFONTPATH='.realpath('.') );
> > > imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text);
> > > imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);
> > >
> > > header("Content-type: image/png");
> > >
> > > imagepng($im);
> > > imagedestroy($im);
> > > ?>

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