error with imagettftext() - no text is showing in rectangle

dougk · February 12, 2012, 8:26pm

Hi,

I’m trying to output some text inside a rectangle. The script was working when I used imagestring() and the built in fonts. I needed larger fonts so I tried to access the TTF fonts with the imagettftext() function. The rectangle printed but didn’t contain any text.

   // Change this defines to where Your fonts are stored
DEFINE("TTF_DIR","/usr/share/fonts/truetype/");

// Change this define to a font file that You know that You have
DEFINE("TTF_FONTFILE","arial.ttf");

imagettftext($im, 16, 0, 10, 20, $color,TTF_DIR.TTF_FONTFILE, $text);

    I have the $color and $text set in code above.

   Any thoughts on what I'm doing incorrectly?

  thanks,

  Doug