[ft] freetype/gd with mac font

[Aaron Winborn]

sorry if this is a repost; my dns went down in the middle of sending it.

i am attempting to create an image in php with gd, using freetype for 
fonts. i can get it working with a .ttf font, but have the mac version 
of a font that i want to use, and it doesn't load. i saw the warning at 
http://us.php.net/imagettftext about .ttf being automatically appended, 
but i'm prepending the font with a /path/ anyway, so it shouldn't 
matter. just to make sure, i tried the putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . 
realpath('.')); trick and also tried manually renaming the font with a 
.ttf extension, both to no avail

i don't know mac's file standards, but i did notice there was a font 
GothBla in one folder, and ._GothBla in Gotham/__MACOSX, so i've tried 
using both files

any ideas of what to try next?

thanks,
aaron