Re: [PHP] Problem loading fonts in gd()

From: Eric (eric_at_broadpark.no)
Date: 11/29/03 

To: php-general@lists.php.net
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:59:35 +0100

"Jason Wong" <php-general@gremlins.biz> wrote in message
news:200311300249.21508.php-general@gremlins.biz...
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 23:15, Eric wrote:
>
> > I have a small problem about loading fonts with imageloadfont()
> >
> > I have copyed fonts with the extension .fon or .ttf to the same
directory
> > as my script, and i give them the font as an argument:
> >
> > $font = imageloadfont('arial.ttf');
> >
> > But i just keep getting the message:
> > Warning: imageloadfont(): Error reading font in c:\program files\apache
> > group\apache\htdocs\gd_test.php on line 35
> >
> > Does anyone know how to properly load fonts into gd, without getting
this
> > error message?
>
> Try using the full, absolute path to the font.
>
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I have already tried that:

imageloadfont("C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/arial.ttf");

i also tried:

imageloadfont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\arial.ttf");

I ALSO tried this:

imageloadfont($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/gd_test.php');

and that didn't work either....

So I'm unfortunately still stuck.

Eric