A new ini setting for setting a permanent font path should be introduced. Using putenv("GDFONTPATH=.."); is not a nice way. Now that it's bundled we can properly fix this.

gd.fontpath = c:\somewhere\over;f:\the\rainbow

This should be settable by the user too, e.g. ini_set().

If gd.fontpath is NOT set it should default to c:\winnt\fonts on win32 and /usr/share/fonts/truetype on unix systems.

Also safe_mode setting should be honored if ttf file's are accessed, e.g. no ini_set() to change the gd.fontpath from the mater value and no support for absolute paths (but should be supported in non-safe_mode).

The fontname should either be a fontname with or without the trailing .ttf extension. If it's not provided, it should also try to load it with .ttf .