Using the example from php.net I get a warning, and the image is not rendered correctly. I supply a full path to the .ttf file like so: /var/www/public/myfont.ttf
PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not find/open font in <phpfile>
I am using a custom .ttf font found here. I can open the file fine in Ubuntu as a valid font file. I also attempted other fonts, with the same result.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32 bit, with apache2, php5, freetype6 and php5-gd installed. I also attempted to chmod 777 file and folder with ttf file, with the same result.
How can I get the example working using a custom ttf font file?
*Edit: The code I’m using:
<?php
// File is: /var/www/public/test.php
// Apart from $font variable, it's copy-pasted from php.net
// Set the content-type
header('Content-Type: image/png');
// Create the image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);
// 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
$font = '/var/www/public/UnmaskedBB.ttf';
// Add some shadow to the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text);
// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);
// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
Output from phpinfo();
[gd]
GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.3.11
T1Lib Support enabled
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPEG Support enabled
libJPEG Version 6b
PNG Support enabled
libPNG Version 1.2.42
WBMP Support enabled
Testing is_file and is_readable:
$font = realpath('./').'/UnmaskedBB.ttf';
echo "Font: ".$font; // /var/www/public/UnmaskedBB.ttf
echo "Is file? ".is_file($font); // 1
echo "Is readable? ".is_readable($font); // 1
Upgrading distro, including all php packages solved the issue