[ft] PHP imagettftext: Bad character spacing / anti-aliasing

[André Hänsel]

Hi list,

I'm experiencing very bad character spacing / anti-aliasing with a PHP
installation. I compared it to another installation where it works.

I'm using the following test code:
        $ih = imagecreatetruecolor(200,100);
        $ch_white = ImageColorAllocate($ih, 255,255,255);
        imagettftext($ih,8,0,10,21,$ch_white,'arialbd.ttf','REFERENZENXXX');
        header('Content-Type: image/gif');
        imagegif($ih);

The bad one with its phpinfo()-Output (in the real application it looks
really bad):

http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/ttftext/bad.gif

GD Support: enabled
GD Version: 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support: enabled
FreeType Linkage: with freetype
FreeType Version: 2.2.1
T1Lib Support: enabled
GIF Read Support: enabled
GIF Create Support: enabled
JPG Support: enabled
PNG Support: enabled
WBMP Support: enabled

And the good one:

http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/ttftext/good.gif

GD Support: enabled
GD Version: bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support: enabled
FreeType Linkage: with freetype
FreeType Version: 2.1.9
T1Lib Support: enabled
GIF Read Support: enabled
GIF Create Support: enabled
JPG Support: enabled
PNG Support: enabled
WBMP Support: enabled
XBM Support: enabled

Which version causes this difference? When was the change?

Regards,
André