Linux GDfontpath

It depends. The correct system-wide location for font files is "/usr/share/fonts". Font files can also be in one of many X-specific directories (if X is even installed on the server), a common one being "/usr/lib/X11/fonts" (often with a "TrueType" directory inside of it). Times New Roman is a font family owned by Microsoft, don''t expect it to exist on most *nix machines. See this for installation information for various distributions. Look around in those directories for something suitable if you need to pick one exact file, as you say.

Thanks... but I still can''t seem to resolve the problem.... let me elaborate what all I''m doing.

For starters, when I ran all my code for generating a poll on my windows platform, it worked fine. But now, I''m getting an error message saying "cannot find/open font in /home/cygnuxi/public_html/functions_poll.php"

Ok, great... so what is causing that message to be generated...? Well, first, I used the following command (which has been modified from the origional windows version). The code looks as follows:

putenv(''GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/'');

I also tried useing:

putenv(''GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/'');

Then, I set my font variable to ''arial'' (I also tried ''arial.ttf'') which is required by other PHP functions such as ImageTTFText(). For one reason or another, the error message I''m getting seems to indicate that PHP can''t find font.ttf file in order to use it. At the moment, I''d take any text style as long as I can get it to work.

Now, even after these modifications, I still have the error. I don''t physically own the server, so I can''t exactally boot up linux and look at all the settings/files/folders. But, I do have access to CPanel... not that I really know how to use it.

Hopefully this explains everything. If you have any questions, let me know.... and Thanks again : )

Ok... I solved my own problem.... go me. But I figured I''d post it just in case someone later down the road found this forum and had the same problem I did.

Pretty much, I uploaded the font.ttf file with a binary setting in FTP.... "didn''t" set the envioronment variable (ie, no putenv or gdfontpath), then used the following:

$font = realpath("arial.ttf");

Worked like a charm... now all I have to do is figure out how to set permissions such that PHP can generate an image, and then save it.