ImageTTFText not workin'

bunner_bob

My first foray into this function, and 'taint working - I just get a missing image box.

Code looks like this:

$height = 200;
$width = 200;
$im = ImageCreate($width, $height);
$white = ImageColorAllocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$black = ImageColorAllocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

ImageFill($im, 0, 0, $black);
ImageLine($im, 0, 0, $width, $height, $white);
ImageTTFText ($im, 10, 0, 20, 150, $white, "FFJUSTLE.TTF", "Sampletext");

Header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
ImageJPEG($im);

ImageDestroy($im);

If I drop the ImageTTFText() line it works fine. The FFJUSTLE.TTF font is in the same directory as the script, but perhaps I need to be more explicit in specifying its path. Would that be it?

bunner_bob

Never mind - I figured it out. Have to specify the FULL pathname to the font - in my case - /Library/WebServer/Documents/carepartnership/fontname.ttf.

Boudga

I have pretty much the same problem although when I add the full path the it doesn't fix anything the image still appears as a broken link to an image....script below:

<?php 
header("Content-type: image/gif");
$totalwidth = 450;
$totalheight = 40;
$image = imagecreate( $totalwidth,$totalheight );
$white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255,255,255);
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0,0,0);
imageline( $image, 450, 32, 0, 32, $black );
imagettftext( $image, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, "/home/sites/home/web/fonts/verdana.ttf", "Testing... Omega: &#937;");
imagegif($image);
ImageDestroy ($image);
?>

bunner_bob

Hmm - well if it's showing up as a broken link it sounds like the image isn't being created at all. I'd first try commenting out the "imagettftext" line to see if that's the issue.

But wait - that ain't it. You're trying to make a GIF, and GD Lib 2.0 doesn't support making GIFs, just jpegs and PNGs. I think there was an earlier version of GD Lib that supported GIFs but they had to drop support - apparently GIF is a copyrighted process, where the other two are not.

Try changing your "gif"s to "jpeg"s - that alone may do it, or it may need a little more tweaking.