Re: [GD-DEVEL] Problem with spacing on some ttf fonts

[email protected] ("Paula Jakobs") Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:07:58 -0500
Newsgroups php.gd.devel
Message-ID <1CC857D7F8F64C52A1B2849170C94FFB@paulaPC>
Thanks!

Paula

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From: "Pierre Joye" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:04 PM
To: "Paula Jakobs" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GD-DEVEL] Problem with spacing on some ttf fonts

> hi,
>
> We recently fixed a bug in SVN, this bug fixed a regression introduced
> in 5.2.13 or 5.3.2. You can try locally by compiling PHP yourself. You
> don't have to install it, only compile it and try your code.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Paula Jakobs <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> That sounds like something the hosting company would have to do, since I
>> don't have control over the gd/php installation? Could you provide me 
>> with
>> more details please so I can ask them to do it?
>>
>> Paula
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Pierre Joye" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 1:46 PM
>> To: "Paula Jakobs" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [GD-DEVEL] Problem with spacing on some ttf fonts
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> Can you try using a svn snapshot please?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Paula Jakobs <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using gd (version 2.0.34) with php (5.2.13) on a hosting account.
>>>> Lately we've noticed that some ttf fonts, mainly handwriting fonts are
>>>> displaying with the spacing messed up. For example, please take a look 
>>>> here:
>>>>  http://www.photocardcafe.com/fontstuff/img.php (this is the font 
>>>> Scriptina)
>>>>
>>>> The odd thing is, these fonts worked in the past with the same script. 
>>>> I
>>>> suppose the hosting company might have made an upgrade that broke 
>>>> things. I
>>>> have a ticket open with them to find out if they did upgrade recently.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know if there's a fix for this? Are there certain ttf 
>>>> fonts
>>>> that don't work? If so, is there a list somewhere of which fonts do 
>>>> work ok?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,,
>>>> Paula Jakobs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pierre
>>>
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>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Pierre
>
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