[Typo3-linux] Newbie Install Question - Missing FC Bigfeet menu logo

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Drew Loika wrote:
> Hello all. Thanks in advance for reading my post, and my apologies in
> advance if this is the wrong list. :-) I went through the list archives,
> and although I found a similar post there were no replies. Here's the
> deal... I installed the Typo3 quickstart package and everything seems to
> be working except the image processing, the FC Bigfeet logo above the
> menu is missing. (Typo3 refers to this as the "Logo-file, menu frame")

In the templates Constants section you should set GIFBUILDER_logo = 1
(http://webgrinders.covers.de/screen.png)

> In the Install Tool, under Basic Configuration, I'm told that FreeType
> is not installed. Under Image Processing-Reading AI file types cannot be
> read, under Image Processing-Scaling GIF to JPG results in a white
> rather than transparent background (not sure this is a problem), under
> Image Processing-Combining the combing using a GIF mask w/ black and
> white results in a uniform green image (but the original test image is
> half green as well, even after I re-downloaded it), and
> Image-Processing-GD Library Functions results in the error message
> "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagettfbbox()." That last
> message is due to FreeType missing, yes? Can I live without FreeType?

If you don't use graphical headlines and graphical menu items, you don't 
need FreeType, other wise you should ask your webhoster to install it.

BTW, change your install-tool password!

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bye
Ingmar