[snippet] gtext

Hm. Doesn’t have much in the way of instructions, does it? Wrote it a long time ago.

First, the font you want to use has to be in the assets/files/fonts folder.



There is a list of options in the comments at the top of the snippet.

If you want, you can change the imagepng() function call near the end to imagegif(), depending on your version of GD (I think, I haven’t actually tried it). If you do, make sure to change the type="image/png" to type="image/gif" in the next-to-the-last line.

http://il.php.net/imagegif

I’ve been trying to implement Susan’s Text2PNG all morning and I’m getting the exact same error as Josh. Haven’t tried gtext, but I suspect I’ll just get the same error. Any idea what might cause it?
-Rob

Quote from: joshlfisher at Jul 11, 2006, 05:06 PM

I am trying to implement Gtext in my template Like This:

<div id="header">

<h1><a href="[~[(site_start)]~]" title="[(site_name)]"><img alt="[(site_name)]" src="[[gtext? &font=`rage.ttf` &fontsize=`18` &color=`#ffffff` &bgcolor=`#000000` &text=`[(site_name)]`]]" /></a></h1>
</div>
<!-- close #header -->

I have uploaded the font to /assets/files/fonts.

I am getting this error:


« MODx Parse Error »
MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »

PHP error debug
Error: imagettfbbox(): Could not find/open font
Error type/ Nr.: Warning - 2
File: /homepages/7/d165971201/htdocs/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(705) : eval()’d code
Line: 208

Parser timing
MySQL: 0.0066 s s (3 Requests)
PHP: 0.0699 s s
Total: 0.0764 s s

How can I fix This?

Right. Really any discussion of Text2PNG should be in a different thread, but as it is the same error:

imagettfbbox(): Could not find/open font

I will let you guys off.

StainlessSteelRat, where have you put the font file? Does it have any spaces in it?

Yes, thanks... I *was* going to put it in the Text2PNG thread, but thought it might be easier to address here since the error is identical to Josh’s using gtext. It might make sense to move it there though... your call. (that’s why they pay you the big Mod bucks, eh? )

The ttf filename has no spaces... it’s htower.ttf and I put it in the assets/files/fonts.
I called it with: [[Text2PNG? &font=’htower.ttf’ &text=’Testing...’]]

More info that may or may not be relevant, straight from phpinfo:
PHP ver = 5.1.2
GD Version = bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
FreeType Version = 2.1.7

Quote from: StainlessSteelRat at Jul 12, 2006, 10:27 AM

I called it with: [[Text2PNG? &font=’htower.ttf’ &text=’Testing...’]]

Use backticks in the snippet parameters, so it would be [[Text2PNG? &font=`htower.ttf` &text=`Testing...`]]

duh. Now THAT was embarrassing....

Thanks for the help.

I am using backticks in my example, but I still have the error.

Quote from: joshlfisher at Jul 12, 2006, 12:43 PM

I am using backticks in my example, but I still have the error.

I tried this snippet my self too in local test enviroment and got same results. Did some searching around and it seems that there is/was some bugs in php imagettfbbox() function. First, it wants the full path to the font (what this snippet is giving, so that’s ok) but it doesn’t allow any spaces to be in the path to the font file. As my docroot was under "C:\Documents and settings\.." it didn’t work for me. Then I tried it with my linux box that has no spaces in docroot and it worked ok.

If this is the issue with you too, I’m afraid there’s not much that can be done to fix it as we can’t use relative paths..

Hmm...
It seems that the font path is case-sensitive also.
My font path is /assets/files/fonts/RAGE.TTF
I changed it to: /assets/files/fonts/rage.ttf

Works!

Great!Quote from: joshlfisher at Jul 12, 2006, 03:23 PM

It seems that the font path is case-sensitive also.

Oh yeah, usually anything relating to paths and filenames are case sensitive, great that you got it working!