TTF Support

[Anon]

Is there an easy way to see if my php4 was compiled with ttf support? I am looking at a tutorial on the site here and can't make heads or tails out of why it's not working. I get an error message stating its not supported in this PHP build, but can't find any instructions on how to change that.

Thanks

Joe

Specifically when I run:

<?
Header("Content-type: image/gif");
if(!isset($s)) $s=11;
if(!isset($text)) $s="This is a test";
$size = imagettfbbox($s,0,"/revjoe/www/fonts/TIMES.TTF",$text);
$dx = abs($size[2]-$size[0]);
$dy = abs($size[5]-$size[3]);
$xpad=9;
$ypad=9;
$im = imagecreate($dx+$xpad,$dy+$ypad);
$blue = ImageColorAllocate($im, 0x2c,0x6D,0xAF);
$black = ImageColorAllocate($im, 0,0,0);
$white = ImageColorAllocate($im, 255,255,255);
ImageRectangle($im,0,0,$dx+$xpad-1,$dy+$ypad-1,$black);
ImageRectangle($im,0,0,$dx+$xpad,$dy+$ypad,$white);
ImageTTFText($im, $s, 0, (int)($xpad/2)+1, $dy+(int)($ypad/2), $black, "/revjoe/www/fonts/TIMES.TTF", $text);
ImageTTFText($im, $s, 0, (int)($xpad/2), $dy+(int)($ypad/2)-1, $white, "/revjoe/www/fonts/TIMES.TTF", $text);
ImageGif($im);
ImageDestroy($im);
?>

I get:

<br>
<b>Warning</b>: ImageTtfBBox: No TTF support in this PHP build in <b>/revjoe/www/fonts/fonts.php</b> on line <b>5</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: ImageTtfText: No TTF support in this PHP build in <b>/revjoe/www/fonts/fonts.php</b> on line <b>16</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: ImageTtfText: No TTF support in this PHP build in <b>/revjoe/www/fonts/fonts.php</b> on line <b>17</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>: ImageGif: No GIF support in this PHP build in <b>/revjoe/www/fonts/fonts.php</b> on line <b>18</b><br>

[cvincent]

Calling just phpinfo() will print out a huge ammount of information about your current PHP config. GD libraries older than 1.6 support gif and not png, newer support png and not gif. To get type 1 font support, get the t1lib (ftp://ftp.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/software/t1lib/) and do --with-t1lib[=dir].

-Chris

[Anon]

OK, I got the T1lib installed. I did a ./configure which is all the install instructions say to do, and did a reconfigure of php. Still no --with-t1lib i phpinfo(). ( I found this later)

I did the following

1) Downloaded T1lib
2) untar
3) performed a .configure for T1lib
4) switched to php dir
5) performed a ./configure with the same options in phpinfo and added --with-t1lib at the end

(./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/etc/mysql --with-config-file-path=/www/conf --with-apache=../httpd --enable-track-vars --with-ttf=/usr/local/etc/T1-1.0.1)

Still no luck and during the confugure, I see the following
checking whether to include GD support... checking for gdImageLine in -lgd... (c
ached) yes
checking for gdImageString16 in -lgd... (cached) yes
checking for gdImageString16 in -lgd... (cached) yes
checking for compress in -lz... (cached) yes
checking for png_info_init in -lpng... (cached) yes
checking for gdImageColorResolve in -lgd... (cached) yes
checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... (cached) yes
checking for gdImageCreateFromGif in -lgd... (cached) no
checking whether to include ttf support... no
checking for T1lib support... checking for T1_GetExtend in -lt1... no
no

This seems to tell me I am getting Gd support but still no ttf.

Help?

Joe

[Anon]

Of course it doesn't work, Type1 fonts are postscript ones, not TrueType ! You need FreeType library. Check at www.freetype.org.

[Anon]

OK so I'm an idiot ;0)

You'd think that someone who spent three years supporting Macs at a company that makes greeting cards would have caught that.

Downloading now. Will update soon.

Joe

[Anon]

Still getting the follwoing...

checking whether to include ttf support... no

Freetype installed into /usr/local/lib so I changed my configure statement to include --with-ttf=/usr/local/lib

Thats right isn't it?

joe

[cvincent]

Ok! I got it to run without giving me any errors and I got an image printed out. I am using GD 1.8.3 and Freetype 1.3.1. I got freetype, "./configure && make && make install && ldconfig" then I got gd all set up. You have to edit the Makefile with GD in order to get GD to include TTF support. So, line 14 changed to

CFLAGS=-0 -DHAVE_LIBTTF

and line 26 reads

LIBS=-lm -lgd -lpng -lz -lttf

then I did "make && make install && ldconfig", then I did the PHP+Apache thing and ran the PHP configure with "./configure --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-apache=../apache-1.3.14 --enable-track-vars --with-imap=../imap --with-gd --enable-gd-imgstrttf".

Thats my setup but you will need at least the last 2 and the --enable-track-vars

-Chris

[Anon]

And wouldn't you know it, I don't have the stuff to compile GD. it was installed as an RPM and didn't include the source. At least as I could find. I'll save you note and email in the morning. I'll test from home tonight.

Thanks all for the help
Joe

[cvincent]

GD: http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-1.8.3.tar.gz
FreeType: ftp://freetype.sourceforge.net/pub/freetype/freetype1/freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz

Also, since the newer versions of GD dont support gifs (if you have 1.5 or older they do) I had to change the header to image/png and I changed ImageGIF($im) to ImagePNG($im);

I also dont know its a problem with the ttf files I am selecting, but I dont get any text on the image, just the colors.

-Chris

[Anon]

OK so Im new to this stuff, but I have a problem, can someone please have the patients to explain this slowly..

I have a RedHat setup with Apache and PHP 4 running as an apache module. I want to use ttf fonts with all this.

I have followed this post pretty much. Up to the point where I make the GD library. I've done that but Im not sure how I configure PHP. Its been installed from a RPM, do I need to uninstall it and reinstall it with the config options or what? I usually do installs via RPMs so if anyone will explain the method please take it slowly.

Thanks
Cris.