[Typo3] Fatal error

[Darren Clark]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:27:07PM +0300, Efthimios Mavrogeorgiadis wrote:
> I have been reading the quickstart tutorial and testing my Typo3
> installation over the past few days and I have to admit that I'm
> impressed by the multitude of possibilities and options that it offers.
> 
> However, today I came across the following error message when I tried to
> changed templates (business --> candidate):
> 
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagettfbbox() in
> /home2/espergr/public_html/qstrat/t3lib/class.t3lib_stdgraphic.php on
> line 922
> 
> Then I noticed that the following appeared in Install Tool's GDLib section:
> 
> It looks like the FreeType library is not compiled into GDLib. This is
> required when TYPO3 uses GDLib and you'll most likely get errors like
> 'ImageTTFBBox is not a function' or 'ImageTTFText is not a function'.
> 
> On the other hand, phpinfo shows:
> 
> imagettftext()      :
> 
> Does this mean that I have to recompile GDLib with FreeType support?

Yes. When you configure gd check that freetype2 library has been found.

> Maybe I should recompile apache to support truetype, too? 

This is not necessary.

Or is it
> something else that caused this error message to appear?

Nope you had it spot on.

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