[snippet] gtext

hmm... I’m getting the

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

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

Parser timing
MySQL: 0.0024 s s (3 Requests)
PHP: 0.0711 s s
Total: 0.0736 s s

with this:

[[gtext? &font=`caslon.ttf` &fontsize=`10` &color=`#ffffff` &bgcolor=`#000000` &text=`My Text`]]

I know my ttf is in the assets/fonts directory, backtics are being used, the file name is all lowercase in both instances... Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong? I’ve read all of this thread as well as Text2PNG...

also- I’m testing it live on the server (/var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/), so i don’t think there are any blank spaces causing issues. Text2PNG also generates an error...

Other possibilities I’ve eliminated:

I’ve, to the best of my understanding, replaced all paths in the snippets to be full paths: "var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/assets" , and checked to make sure that FreeType Support is enabled, which it is on my phpinfo page. Then I switched it back when that did not solve the issue.

I still think this has something to do with the base path, although I cannot figure out what. MaxiGallery, another snippet which I presume uses GD to make *it’s* jpegs, functions properly, yet both seem to use "config[’base_path’]"...

So it was my base path- I replaced all instances of:

"config[’base_path’]."

with

"/var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/

The gtext seems to sort of not be messing up now, although it has yet to actually quite work... but I have renewed confidence.

Actually- this is not a fix- it causes the snippet to not work at all- anything I put in the path is fine, as long as it isn’t
"config[’base_path’]."

Quote from: ooghe at Oct 24, 2006, 03:07 PM

...I know my ttf is in the assets/fonts directory...

Isn’t it supposed to be in assets/files/fonts?

d’oh!

thanks.

Back to the foundation : (maybe I should psot this as a new topic ?)

I could see this snippet, based on class ATextImage could deal with Font size, color, and position..

but
is there any way to add Italic ou Bold or underline support ?

Thank you

Hello there,

i am trying to use gtext so that it generates a series of images that will be used in a menu - so that i can use a non system (web) font for the menu.

I am using code from the snippet ListSiteMap to generate the list of pagetitles needed in the heirachy, and am calling gtext from in the loop, for some reason this doesn’t work - i get no errors, just a blank page.

any ideas why this could be? - is it because there are too many calls to gtext? (only 7 items in the menu).

any ideas?

If you are using 0.9.5, parse errors are in the system event log, see that from the manager for possible info..