PHP: What is required for GD & ImageTTFBBox

stefanlasiewski · 08-22-2005, 04:13 PM

Hello Gang,

I have some PHP pages that require GD.

I compiled PHP 5.0.4 to use GD, and GD's native TTF support, like this:

Code:

% tar zxf php-5.0.4.tar.gz
% cd php5.0.4
% ./configure \
--with-gd   \
--enable-gd-native-ttf

However, most of these pages fail with the following error:

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function ImageTTFBBox() in /usr/local/httpd/weather/graph.php on line 1273"

What do I need to do to get ImageTTFBBox to work? I know ImageTTFBBox is a native class. GD has native TTF support, correct?

Do I still need to install TrueType, FreeType or some other package?

stefanlasiewski · 08-23-2005, 02:33 PM

I finally resolved this--

To use these packages, you must have some True-Type font libraries as well as some True-Type font files installed on your system.

On Debian, I resolved this by installing the following packages:

libttf2 libttf-dev libfreetype6 freetype2 libfreetype6-dev msttcorefonts

And then I compiled PHP 5.0.4 with the following configure settings:

--with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include --with-zlib

I don't think all of these packages and compile settings are required, but I don't have time to figure out which ones are required and which are optional.