PHP - imagettftext not working and GD installed
gd, image, imagettftext, php
Solution
Had the same problem, with FreeType installed, solution was
$font = "./Arial.ttf"; // <--- put ./ in front of filename
Problem
It's being long hours that I'm still looking for answer to this problem.. All the solutions I find are around catching the font name but I am pretty sure this isn't my problem. It looks like GD is installed ``` array(11) { ["GD Version"]=> string(27) "bundled (**2.0.34 compatible**)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(false) ["T1Lib Support"]=> bool(false) ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPEG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XPM Support"]=> bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) } ``` Above you can see my GD support. My PHP version is 5.3 and I'm running on Linux. I have tried few different code examples from different websites and none works. ImageString does work for me but I need to get imagettftext to work.. This is the last code I have tried now- ``` <?php ini_set('display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL); // Set the content-type header('Content-Type: image/png'); // Create the image $im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 100) or die("Can't create image!"); // Create some colors $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255); $grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128); $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white); // The text to draw $text = 'Testing'; // Replace path by your own font path $font = 'arial.ttf'; // Add some shadow to the text imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, 'arial.ttf', $text); // Add the text imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, 'arial.ttf', $text); // Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg() imagepng($im); imagedestroy($im); ?> ``` Result: http://www.7679679.com/app/test-ansi.php