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Dec 23.2005

I keep getting a “font not found” error whenever I try to use the imagettftext() function with the PHP4 installation on my own computer (running Apache 1.3 on Windows NT4). I have tried putting the fonts into all of the different folders I can think of to try to link from and even have the script using the following code to retrieve the fonts from a specified location but I still get the not found error. Does anyone have any ideas?

[code=php]
$dir = opendir(‘./’);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir))) {
if (eregi(‘ttf{1}$’, $file)){
$fonts[] = ‘./’.$file;
}
}
closedir($dir);
$font = realpath($fonts[0]);
imagettftext($image, 44, 15, 50, 200, $blue, $font, “Hello World”);
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@SpectreReturnsDec 23.2005 — As far as my experience goes, the font must be in the same directory and when specifying it, you would just give the filename.
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@bokehDec 25.2005 — Stephen, I don't quite know what is going wrong but I would try something along these lines maybe.[code=php]$current_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].str_replace(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$pointer = opendir($current_dir);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($pointer))) {
if (eregi('ttf{1}$', $file)){
$fonts[] = $current_dir.$file;
}
}
closedir($pointer);
$font = $fonts[0];
imagettftext($image, 44, 15, 50, 200, $blue, $font, "Hello World");[/code]
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@felgallauthorDec 25.2005 — Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it still doesn't work. I wonder where the code is looking for the fonts since it can't seem to find them from anywhere that I put them no matter how I try to specify their location. Guess I'll just have to give up trying to get it to work on my own computer for the time being.
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@bokehDec 25.2005 — Don't give up so easily! On a windows machine the following works for me.[code=php]<?php
$font_dir = 'c:/windows/fonts/';
$pointer = opendir($font_dir);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($pointer))) {
if (eregi('(.ttf){1}$', $file)){
$fonts[] = $font_dir.$file;
}
}
closedir($pointer);
$font = $fonts[20]; // make sure this isn't a symbol font

header ("Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents('1.jpg')); // get a real image to work on
$blue = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255);
imagettftext($image, 12, 0, 20, 20, $blue, $font, "Hello World");
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>[/code]
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@bokehJan 30.2006 — Stephen, did you ever solve this?

If not here is something else to try:[code=php]<?php
$dir = opendir('./');
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir))) {
if (eregi('ttf{1}$', $file)){
$fonts[] = './'.$file;
}
}
closedir($dir);
putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));
imagettftext($image, 44, 15, 50, 200, $blue, $font[0], "Hello World");
?>[/code]
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