[Typo3] menu item image gets cut off or truncated

[Vincent]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:40:12AM -0700, Christopher wrote:
> On 12/10/05, Vincent <typo3 at crel.us> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:26:38AM -0700, Christopher wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 12/10/05, Vincent <typo3 at crel.us> wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > This might be considered an install issue.  I am not sure.
> > > >
> > > > On standard static templates such as "RE", that generate a gif image for
> > > > menu items, the menu items are getting truncated if they are more than
> > > > just a few characters long.  For example, if I have a page named
> > > > "dialog", it truncates the menu item to "dial" and part of the "o" is
> > > > visible.
> > >
> > > Check to see if they're all the same length - if they are, then you
> > > should be searching for a) a constant in the template module that's
> > > constraining the length of generated graphics, or [more likely] b)
> > > settings in the GMENU in question limiting the length of the menu
> > > items - use the TS object browser to check.
> >
> > No, they vary in length.  The longer the page name is, the longer the
> > the index image is, but it always truncates part of it if the name is
> > 3 characters or more.  It seems to truncate more as the name gets
> > longer.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > I created 6 pages named 123 to 12345678.
> >
> > 123:    About a third of the 3 gets cut off.
> > 1234:   The 4 is completely missing but the 3 is complete.
> > 12345678:   Shows 12345.  678 is completely missing.
> >
> 
> Have you got a public test page?

I do now :-).

http://crel.us/quickstart

You can see the page names under "testsite 2" in the index.
Click on "testsite 2" and you will see the problem in the index at the
top.