Re: [GD-DEVEL] Re: Font Effects (Oblique, 'Bold', etc)

Thanks Takeshi,

Actually yes, I had contacted the developer who then placed a 5.3 
version on the site.

I also found the reason for the segfault: ImageFTText 
(gdImageStringFTEx) is what he's doing all of his operations on.. 
anytime I use ImageTTFText, it segfaults. Seems odd to me, since it's 
just a wrapper to gdImageStringFTEx, but it is what it is.

Unfortunately, the developer also says he has no time to look into this. 
I personally think this patch is of great value to GD, and I think with 
a little bit of cleanup (and hopefully a brief look into this issue), 
could/should be added to the base code.

-Jason

Takeshi Abe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:56:21 -0400, Jason Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Just to follow up on my own question, I did find the following page:
>> http://greyworld.net/en/projects/p/php-gd-better-freetype2/
>>
>> He has made modifications to GD to expose more of FreeType's
>> functionality. Unfortunately, hist last 'supported' PHP version is 5.2.9, and I
>> get a segfault when using this with 5.3.
> a recent update of the above page includes 'php-gd-ft2-5.3.0.diff.gz (2009-08-17)'.
> 
>> Pierre or Takeshi, maybe you can take a look at this and make it part of GD? (Or
>> at least help make it work?:P) I'm not a C programmer, but I did do enough
>> digging to know it is the "render_mode |= strex->loadFlags;" change in gdft.c
>> that's causing the segfaults.
> While now I'm not sure how many things render_mode affects,
> it would be appreciated to report it to bugs.libgd.org for further discussion.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Takeshi Abe