I'm having problems with migrating my 'Now Playin'' to TrueType Font setting, but I'm having problems.

I used the methods explained in http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php (thanks to fluffy_lobster) but they seemed pointless to my server (probably they don't have the needed libs).

Is there any workaround or another way to achieve it?

You might not have the ttf module installed on you server.

Make a php file just containing:

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<?php phpinfo(); ?>

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--with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2

What am I doing wrong??

You saw how the script looked like, didn't you?

* KeyStorm is sure it's a stupid-programmer-error

btw: you don't need to be so explicit ('do a phpinfo' would've been enough )

that's the entire config?  that can't be right, there's not even gd there

what's the error you're getting?

no, I just showed you the interesting part (of course there is GD, otherways you wouldn't see the image in my sig)
I'm not getting no error, because the image is created and destroyed after passing the function (ie, if there's an error it doesn't brake the execution)
As it's image/png i don't see the parser notices

(i'm trying it in html)

Well in that case, don't declare the image/php header until you get to outputting the actual image.  Is there nothing about ttf then in your phpinfo?

huh, sorry: 'with-ttf=/usr/' and ''--enable-gd-imgstrttf'' I almost miss them.

code:

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<?php
  //header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
  $im = imagecreate(400, 30);
  $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);


  imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, "_sans",  "Testing... Omega: &amp;#937;");
               //I tried many common font names in font
  imagejpeg($im, 'test.png');
  imagedestroy($im);
?>
<img src=test.png border=1>

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ah

you have to upload a ttf font and refer to it.  So the font has to be specified "./fonts/tahoma.ttf"

I did that already try this before, pointless... (I tried again now, btw)
Can I know which fonts are included in the library?

Well that's how you do it... do what I said so that it shows what error it's returning, then that might explain what's wrong.

look at http://funmail.keystorm.net/MP!/test.php

The code is:

code:

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<?php
  //header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
  $im = imagecreate(400, 30);
  $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

  // Replace path by your own font path
  imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, "./fonts/decotype.ttf",
  "Testing... Omega: &amp;#937;");
  imagejpeg($im, 'test.png');
  imagedestroy($im);
?>
<img src=test.png border=1>

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I just noticed your config sets the fonts path as /usr/include/freetype2 - maybe try adding that before the path?  Font files relative to the file you're running should work just as well though

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
imagejpeg($im, 'test.png');

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
/usr/include/freetype2

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when fontfile does not begin with a leading '/', '.ttf' will be appended to the filename and the library will attempt to search for that filename along a library-defined font path.

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I'm not sure, it might be somewhere on their website at http://www.freetype.org/

Hmm, try uploading my IP sig as a test, to see whether it's a problem on your server or with the font you're trying to use

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Originally posted by WDZ
For custom fonts relative to the current dir, have a '/' as the first character (get rid of that dot). Otherwise (if you want to use a default font), no slash.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
(I tried /fonts/decotype.ttf aswell, as stated in the php doc-page you told me)

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
which are the fonts installed by default in there by freetype?

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
(I tried /fonts/decotype.ttf aswell, as stated in the php doc-page you told me)

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