Description:
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Our dev server was recently upgraded to PHP v5.2.13. With that upgrade we have found that our png images are having kerning/tracking/spacing problems. We've tried numerous fonts and haven't found a good solution yet. imagettftextwithtracking - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettfbbox.php#51373 - is helping some but still isn't as nice as the old version of PHP was.

We are creating images using the GD library and writing text to the images using font files and the imagettftext() or imagefttext() functions.

I'm including examples of the new and old tahoma bold. Other fonts (bold and non-bold) have the same problem. Some letters and numbers seem like they're off-center or something like that.

Thanks!!


Test script:
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ImageTTFText($imFinalImage,13,0,$x,$y, $black,"/fonts/tahomabd.ttf",$titleText);

//I stripped that down some (taking out vars so you had the basic info) 
//but that's the format along with our font size & font.



Expected result:
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The usual text

old PHP v5.2.11 (the words are slightly different because this is our dev server and the other one is the live server) 

http://yfrog.com/i3goodlp

Actual result:
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Messy text
new PHP 

http://yfrog.com/i3badej