Hello internals, I am dealing with a rather annoying and very prolonged problem here concerning a few of the GD functions that use external fonts. I had originally posted the problem as a bug report under #26635 under the false assumption that PHP 4.3.4 simply had a problem with relative pathnames to the fonts. However, after long correspondence and troubleshooting on my part, I found that there was a different problem behind the original issue that was causing the problem. I posted this at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26764 with the assumption that it would be fixed. However, all I received was a rather nasty reply telling me to quit reporting the problem. With that being said, I apologize if I came across as unnecessarily rude, but the developer was really pushing my buttons. Since I have, on numerous occasions, tried to clarify the problem and prove its existence and have met very little help or action, I am mailing the developer's list (emailing the bug fixers doesn't help, and no one else has developer access to the runtime source code). The bug (or problem, if you will) that I reported is almost surely legitimate; it has been mentioned twice in the imagettftext() pages concerning spaces in pathnames, and has been verified by a moderator at phpbuilder.net (Weedpacket), and I have shown repeatedly in my examples and situations that such a thing exists. I even looked at the source code for the GD extension, and I clearly see
/* * The character (space) used to separate alternate fonts in the * fontlist parameter to gdImageStringFT. */ #define LISTSEPARATOR " " on line 84 of /gd/libgd/gdft.c. This may not be the deciding line of code that determines the separator between alternate fonts, but I have checked spaces as you can see in the bug report, and such a thing works. Therefore, the only explanation for such pathnames working in that fashion is if what I am claiming is true. If you people care to test it out, the code in the aforementioned report will almost surely replicate the problem, both on 4.3.4 and the latest STABLE CVS. If this cannot be worked out in PHP or must be relegated to the folks at boutell to handle, then at the very least, please tell me, for it would certainly be much more informative than denying the existence of this problem. Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
