Re: [ft] freetype+gd with mac fonts?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 14:32, Aaron Winborn wrote:

> 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 another 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 all of this using both files.
>
> any ideas of what to try next?

Are you doing this on a Macintosh or something else? I assume you  
need a Mac to do this.

Mac files can have two forks -- data and resource. Most every other  
OS considers a file to be just data. Old Mac fonts are in the  
resource fork however. On filesystems that don't support multiple  
forks, the two forks are broken out into two files -- GothBla is the  
data fork (probably empty?) and ._GothBla is the resource fork. I  
assume you need to combine these together so that you have a proper  
Mac resource file.