How am I to use different fonts on Linux server that I have no root access on?

[bodzan]

Basically it comes to this:

A client of mine wants me to use all sorts of different fonts to write some text on the predefined image and to show it to visitors (like a show - visitor would choose a font and then my engine would have to show that as a picture)...

I have the functions covered (I use imagetfttext for this), so basic functionallity is not the issue, but the fonts are...

I have no root acces to the server and thus I can't figure out what fonts are installed (it's a Linux environment). Basically, I would like to know how to find out what fonts are installed (obviously I would need TTF fonts to use here) and if I need new ones how should I go installing them?

Also if there is a better way in doing this please let me know...

Any help is greatly appreciated...

[scrupul0us]

You could just ask the client for a list of the fonts

[bodzan]

The main issue here is that my client wants me to use the somewhat exotic fonts on it (like Brush Script, Frutiger and similar)...

Also, I need to know where fonts reside on Linux...