On Jul 3, 2008, at 14:32, Aaron Winborn wrote:
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?
Are you doing this on a Macintosh or something else? I assume you need
a Mac to do this.
Mac files can have two forks -- data and resource. Most every other OS
considers a file to be just data. Old Mac fonts are in the resource
fork however. On filesystems that don't support multiple forks, the
two forks are broken out into two files -- GothBla is the data fork
(probably empty?) and ._GothBla is the resource fork. I assume you
need to combine these together so that you have a proper Mac resource
file.
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