hi Franscisco,

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Francisco Javier
<fmorales_htw@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, we have migrated our web site from a machine with
> a Redhat 9 php4 - gd 2.0.28 to another with Debian 4
> with php5 + php-gd ...
>
> I write you because we have a problem with the text fonts,
> when we create an image from a text using "the same fonts"
> (because, we have moved the fonts diretory)
>
> it is show differents that how it was in the old machine.
>
> Now the text in the generate image is more "compressed"
> and ... it look like it were in "bold".

Is the difference like the ones you can see here:

http://pierre.libgd.org/ft2/comparison.html

?

> I was looking for some differenceses beetwen gd 2.0.28 and=20
> the version that install php5-gd of Debian 4... and I found
> that XBM is enable in my old version, but not in the new...

I sadly do not support or recommend to use Debian's package for GD (or PHP).

> Could be XBM disable the problem???, how can I enable XBM if I installed
> it with apt-get installed php5-gd??

It is not related to XBM.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre
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