Calls to imagettftext cause fatal error in php

[Chris Janton]

On 2008-07-07 , at 11:53 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> The way I read things is that if one turns off quickdraw in freetype
>> then the "problem" will not occur.
>
> What are the implications of turning off QuickDraw in FreeType? What
> features will then not work?


 From what I can see? No more deprecated QuickDraw functions. The  
following configuration settings seem relevant...

   --with-old-mac-fonts    allow Mac resource-based fonts to be used
   --with-fsspec           use obsolete FSSpec API of MacOS, if  
available
                           (default=yes)
   --with-fsref            use Carbon FSRef API of MacOS, if available
                           (default=yes)
   --with-quickdraw-toolbox
                           use MacOS QuickDraw in ToolBox, if available
                           (default=yes)
   --with-quickdraw-carbon use MacOS QuickDraw in Carbon, if available
                           (default=yes)
   --with-ats              use AppleTypeService, if available  
(default=yes)

I modified my version of the Portfile (running from trunk)

	--with-fsspec=no
	--with-fsref=no
	--with-quickdraw-toolbox=no
	--with-quickdraw-carbon=no
	--with-old-mac-fonts=no //this one is for me, since I don't use old  
mac fonts ;-)

and left --with-ats alone.

Followed with

	sudo port configure freetype
	sudo port build freetype
	sudo port install -f freetype

hand tested PHP, works as advertised.

	sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl graceful

tested the same PHP code with web browser. I got an image with text on  
it as expected (the same image that gets produced by a running the PHP  
straight-up).

 From what I read the only "feature" that doesn't work anymore is the  
ability to use freetype with old-style Mac file specs and references.

Anyway - I was just taking the opportunity to look into MacPorts in  
more depth. I don't have any attachment to a change or not change in  
the freetype port.

8)
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