Hi Joerg, >> Re-run the configure-script for GD see if it detects Freetype. >> The error must be there. > thats the prob: We cant finde an error - GD shows no error on compiling. There are two parts: 1. the GD library 2. the GD extension for PHP AFAIK, both need to include the freetype library. So which one did you try? Cheers - michael