imagettftext error: could not find/open font...

[janhouse00]

Hi, I am looking for help regarding the use of true type font in GD, somehow the code shown below doesn't work and it says
"Warning: Could not find/open font.." . Currently I'm using php 4.0.6 ,GD 2.0+ on my windows(ME) box. Any idea?Thank you so much.

<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = imagecreate (400, 30);
$black = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
imagettftext ($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $white, "c:/windows/font/arial.ttf", "Testing");
imagepng ($im);
imagedestroy ($im);
?>

P.S: my font file is stored in c:/windows/font/

[spirp]

As it says, PHP can't find your font (duh 🙂. I've never used PHP on Windows, so I'm not familiar with the path-syntax you should use, but maybe you'll need to do something like this in order to get it right..

c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf

A small notice, on my machine, the directory where windows has all it's fonts is c:\windows\fonts (that is "fonts" not "font").. I'm using Windows XP, I wouldn't be surprised if that differs from version to version though..

Good luck,
Olle