Bug #51571 [Opn->Fbk]: Problems with character spacing in imagettftext/imagefttext

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51571&edit=1

 ID:               51571
 Updated by:       [email protected]
 Reported by:      leottan at imsweb dot com
 Summary:          Problems with character spacing in
                   imagettftext/imagefttext
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Feedback
 Type:             Bug
 Package:          GD related
 Operating System: SUSE Ent. Linux v9 SP4 64bit
 PHP Version:      5.2.13

 New Comment:

Please try using this snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/




Previous Comments:
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[2010-04-16 17:01:15] leottan at imsweb dot com

Description:
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Our dev server was recently upgraded to PHP v5.2.13. With that upgrade
we have found that our png images are having kerning/tracking/spacing
problems. We've tried numerous fonts and haven't found a good solution
yet. imagettftextwithtracking -
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettfbbox.php#51373 - is
helping some but still isn't as nice as the old version of PHP was.

We are creating images using the GD library and writing text to the
images using font files and the imagettftext() or imagefttext()
functions.

I'm including examples of the new and old tahoma bold. Other fonts (bold
and non-bold) have the same problem. Some letters and numbers seem like
they're off-center or something like that.

Thanks!!


Test script:
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ImageTTFText($imFinalImage,13,0,$x,$y,
$black,"/fonts/tahomabd.ttf",$titleText);

//I stripped that down some (taking out vars so you had the basic info)

//but that's the format along with our font size & font.



Expected result:
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The usual text

old PHP v5.2.11 (the words are slightly different because this is our
dev server and the other one is the live server) 

http://yfrog.com/i3goodlp

Actual result:
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Messy text
new PHP 

http://yfrog.com/i3badej


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