Shoutbox

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:

code:

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<?php phpinfo(); ?>

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and run it, and report back the third box, called Configure Command, and it'll tell you if you have that or any alternatives installed.

--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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I have uploaded those two fonts from my font folder (maybe crappy idea):
/fonts/tahoma.ttf (apparently ClearType)
/fonts/decotype.ttf (apparently TT)

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.