imagettftext: Bad character spacing

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Hi,

I'm experiencing very bad character spacing / anti-aliasing with a PHP
installation. I compared it to another installation where it works.

I'm using the following test code:
$ih = imagecreatetruecolor(200,100);
$ch_white = ImageColorAllocate($ih, 255,255,255);
imagettftext($ih,8,0,10,21,$ch_white,'arialbd.ttf' ,'REFERENZENXXX');
header('Content-Type: image/gif');
imagegif($ih);

The bad one with its phpinfo()-Output (in the real application it
looks really bad):

http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/ttftext/bad.gif

GD Support: enabled
GD Version: 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support: enabled
FreeType Linkage: with freetype
FreeType Version: 2.2.1
T1Lib Support: enabled
GIF Read Support: enabled
GIF Create Support: enabled
JPG Support: enabled
PNG Support: enabled
WBMP Support: enabled
And the good one:

http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/ttftext/good.gif

GD Support: enabled
GD Version: bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support: enabled
FreeType Linkage: with freetype
FreeType Version: 2.1.9
T1Lib Support: enabled
GIF Read Support: enabled
GIF Create Support: enabled
JPG Support: enabled
PNG Support: enabled
WBMP Support: enabled
XBM Support: enabled

Which version causes this difference? When was the change?

Regards,
André

Aug 6 '08 #1

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Bill H

On Aug 6, 12:31*pm, André Hänsel <an...@webkr.dewrote:

Hi,

I'm experiencing very bad character spacing / anti-aliasing with a PHP
installation. I compared it to another installation where it works.

I'm using the following test code:
* * * * $ih = imagecreatetruecolor(200,100);
* * * * $ch_white = ImageColorAllocate($ih, 255,255,255);
* * * * imagettftext($ih,8,0,10,21,$ch_white,'arialbd.ttf' ,'REFERENZENXXX');
* * * * header('Content-Type: image/gif');
* * * * imagegif($ih);

The bad one with its phpinfo()-Output (in the real application it
looks really bad):

http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/ttftext/bad.gif

GD Support: enabled
GD Version: 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support: enabled
FreeType Linkage: with freetype
FreeType Version: 2.2.1
T1Lib Support: enabled
GIF Read Support: enabled
GIF Create Support: enabled
JPG Support: enabled
PNG Support: enabled
WBMP Support: enabled

And the good one:

http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/ttftext/good.gif

GD Support: enabled
GD Version: bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support: enabled
FreeType Linkage: with freetype
FreeType Version: 2.1.9
T1Lib Support: enabled
GIF Read Support: enabled
GIF Create Support: enabled
JPG Support: enabled
PNG Support: enabled
WBMP Support: enabled
XBM Support: enabled

Which version causes this difference? When was the change?

Regards,
André

Just a shot - are you using the same arial font file on both? If not,
eliminate that as an issue and copy the one on the good to the bad
one.

Bill H

Aug 6 '08 #2

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On Aug 6, 10:25*pm, Bill H <b...@ts1000.uswrote:

>
Just a shot - are you using the same arial font file on both? If not,
eliminate that as an issue and copy the one on the good to the bad
one.

Yes, of course, I am loading it in the test case.

Aug 7 '08 #3

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Sorry, just found out that the bad image was broken. Now it's there,
so go and see for yourself. :)

Aug 7 '08 #4

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