Re: [Freetype] Re: GD::Text doesn't seem to like FreeType

[Dan Delaney]

From: "Tom Kacvinsky" <address@hidden>:
> Which version of perl are you using?  I most had problems getting GD 1.32
to
> work with perl 5.6, Solaris 7, libgd 1.8.3, and FreeType 1.3.1.  I am not
sure
> what the problems were, but GD compiles fine (and passes the tests) when I
use
> perl 5.00503.

Thanks for the reply Tom. Yep, I'm using Perl 5.6. Id rather not have to
uninstall it and install 5.0 in its place :-) Following is a message that
someone on the Report Magic list sent back to me. He contacted the author of
GD::Text, and this is what he had to say:

> On some, very rare, platforms and combinations of GD and the freetype
> libraries, this sometimes happens. I suspect that the values for the
> bounding boxes are a few pixels off the expected alues. I have still
> not
> been able to find out exactly what is causing this.
>
> My normal advice to these people is to run the demo program in the
> demo
> directory, and to visually see that the output image looks ok. If it
> does, then it's safe to install the modules. They will work correctly,
> just slightly differently from other places.
>
> I'm actually starting to suspect some libm implementations on some
> platforms, which may result in some slight rounding errors, which
> could
> result in freetype giving slightly off placements, which results in GD
> reporting a bounding box which isn't where it should be. However, I'm
> still not sure of this. I haven't ever been able to reproduce it, or
> make the problem go away by getting people to install the exact same
> set
> of libgd, GD, freetype and GD::Text as I am using.
>
> This is actually the first report I got of this going wrong on a
> Solaris
> system, so I'll give it another go at work, on Solaris 2.6. We don't
> have a 7 installation yet which I can fiddle around on