TTFs, GD library and Windows

quark

I've tried to find a good description on using the TTF functions of the GD library on Windows (2000), but all I found was threads that turned into how to install the GD library in general or some other things not related to the fundamental problem of "What do I have to do to output TTF fonts when I have correctly installed and configured Apache, PHP and the GD libary?".
With Linux I'd have to install the freetype library which I can't with Windows - because there's no binary and no description of how to do it.
At the moment I just get a "font not found" error.
Please help me!

Anon

You could try the php distribution from www.php4win.de, which included most extentions, including dll's which are needed by these extentions.

The php4win distribution supports GD and Freetype right out of the box.

Niels

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sandingmachine

FreeType appears to be built-in in the GD library. If you download the whole Win32 package (3 megs) the GD-binary is included. Simply remove the semicolon (😉 from your php.ini.

Anon

It's a fact, Freetype is built into GD if you use the 4.0.6 Win32 distribution. But you DO get a 'can't find/open font' message every time you try to ImageTTFBBox() or ImageTTFText() - no matter you give a file path or an url, it can be relative or absolute, same problem.

Someone around got the solution?