Re: Where to put TTF's for use by GD

[John Ellson]

Chris,

I don't think that GD.pm makes any assumptions at all about where
fonts are installed.   Instead it requires a full pathname to the font
in the fontname parameter.

John Ellson



Chris Cooper wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Here's my really stupid Q for the day (yes only one ;-)
> 
> I've just installed Freetype as recommended by GD and would like to
> copy across a TTF file from my Win98 PC so I can access this font via
> GD.
> 
> Freetype can view the font fine - well, "./ftview ppem arial.ttf"
> worked fine when popped the font in the current working directory.
> 
> I must be missing something blindly obvious since I can't seem to work
> out where a TTF file should be placed on the system so that the font is
> accessible by GD.pm, as per
> 
> ... "
> 
> @bounds =
> GD::Image->stringTTF(fgcolor,fontname,ptsize,angle,x,y,string) Class
> Method
> 
> This method uses TrueType to draw a scaled, antialiased string using
> the TrueType vector font of your choice. It requires that libgd to have
> been compiled with TrueType support, and for the appropriate TrueType
> font to be installed on your system.
> 
> " ...
> 
> It's the "how to install a TrueType font on your system" bit of the FAQ
> and docs I seems to be missing (yes the Freetype docs that is ;-)
> 
> Any constructive suggestions much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chr!s
> 
> PS: Using GD-1.27, gd-1.8.1, libpng-1.0.6, zlib-1.1.2, jpef-6b and
> freetype-1.3.1 on Solaris 2.6 & 2.7
> 
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