[ft] freetype+gd with mac fonts?

[Aaron Winborn]

i am attempting to create an image in php with gd, using freetype for 
fonts. i can get it working with a .ttf font, but have the mac version 
of another font that i want to use, and it doesn't load. i saw the 
warning at http://us.php.net/imagettftext about .ttf being automatically 
appended, but i'm prepending the font with a /path/ anyway, so it 
shouldn't matter. just to make sure, i tried the putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . 
realpath('.')); trick and also tried manually renaming the font with a 
.ttf extension, both to no avail.

i don't know mac's file standards, but i did notice there was a font 
GothBla in one folder, and ._GothBla in Gotham/__MACOSX, so i've tried 
all of this using both files.

any ideas of what to try next?

thanks,
aaron winborn