I recently updated our production server and all of our php font-based image generating functions stopped producing output, no errors just the ttf support in php wouldn't draw anything. Unmerging 2.1.5 and unpacking the latest 2.1.7 release from source on the freetype site and building and installing it fixed the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install apache2 2.install mod_php4 with gd and freetype support and gd native ttf 3.try to use ttf support in php Actual Results: font functions in php no longer produced any output Expected Results: produced output :) no errors, just need to make sure this gets updated to 2.1.7 quick before some people who depend on ttf support start pulling their hair out :)
2.1.7 is no quick solution here, since a lot of things won't build with it. Can anyone besides the reporter test & confirm this ? Maybe it's an ABI problem ?
Freetype 2.1.5 breaks paragui font loading as well (ie blank renders). sdl-ttf seems to work fine.
but sdl-ttf uses freetype, so.. that means its unlikely that it is ft that is the culprit. Is there anyone who can reproduce this ?
Charles: would you mind posting a PHP testcase for us, as well as your USE flags (the full 'emerge info' output would be better).
freetype-2.1.9 is now stable, maybe this can be closed. regards, Benoit
problem disappeared with more recent versions
