[TYPO3-english] gifbuilder text rendering issue

[Jigal van Hemert]

Fabian wrote:
> I have used GIFBUILDER to render a text, which worked fine. However, 
> after moving the site to a different server there seems to be a problem 
> with rendering some characters, see the attached image. As you can see 
> the letter 'j' is misplaced.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what could cause this?
> 
> The old and the new server have some small differences:
> PHP version: 5.2.5 (old), 5.3.2 (new)
> ImageMagick version: 6.3.6 (old), 6.5.5-10 (new)

According to [1] there is a kerning bug in 5.3.2 (kerning is the 
adjustment of spacing between characters depending on specific character 
combinations). It seems to be fixed in 5.3.3 (only RC available).

Alternative option:
- use webfonts [1] to let the browser render text (Font Squirrel has a 
nice generator for your own fonts and browser support is impressive)


[1] http://bugs.php.net/51207
[2] http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface

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