Error Finding Fonts

[loureiro]

hi,

Im starting to try to create fonts whoever im having problems locating where the fonts are...

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<b>Warning</b>: imagettftext(): Could not find/open font in <b>/home/ziggy/public_html/fonts/testing.php</b> on line <b>8</b><br />
ÿØÿàJFIFÿþ>CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality

here is my code...taken from the php manual

  header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
  $im = imagecreate(400, 30);
  $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
  $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);

  // Replace path by your own font path
  imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, "/ziggy/public_html/fonts/ARIAL.ttf", "Testing... Omega: Ω");
  imagejpeg($im);
  imagedestroy($im);

here are the combinations i have tried...
/fonts/ARIAL.ttf
home/ziggy/public_html/fonts/ARIAL.ttf
arial

any help would be greatly appreciated!

[loureiro]

and yes i have looked at the manual and tried numerous different approaches...anything else that might be causing me some trouble?

[bodo]

Try:

/home/ziggy/public_html/fonts/ARIAL.ttf

and all should work fine.

Otherwise open a shell to the machine, copy the fontfile name from Your php script and check it in the system like:

bla> ll /home/ziggy/public_html/fonts/ARIAL.ttf

If it is not found, correct it, until You find the file and enter this file into Your PHP-Script. Voila.