Having battled for days trying to get the illusive ImageTTFText() feature to actually work, it seems that the text rendering is "blocky".

My build is as follows:

FreeType 2.0.5
GD 2.0.1
PHP 4.0.6

Try this link:

http://www.virtualisp.co.uk/test/actionbutton.php?t=Text

This is the PHP4.0.6 version.

I have an older server running 4.0.4pl1, gd1.8.3 and freetype 1.3.1 at:

http://resellers.virtualisp.co.uk:8080/icons/actionbutton.php?t=Text

This renders fine.

I can't get 4.0.4pl1 to work with FreeType on my Slackware 8 box and the only version that seems to compile is 4.0.6 with PNG, JPEG, GD2 and FreeType 2.

Is this a problem with GD/FreeType or PHP4.0.6?

I read an article in the general mailing list about this so tried to go back to 4.0.5 but keep getting errors with FreeType / PNG - it's as if 4.0.5 doesn't want to see FreeType 2 as debug.log keeps referencing -lttf instead of -lfreetype and -I/usr/local/include/freetype instead of -I/usr/local/include/freetype2

Any ideas?