Thanks for the answer, though, Rasmus!
--- Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net> wrote:
> Frankly, your bug reporting sucks. This should have
> been a one-line
> explanation with a simple example instead of that
> diatribe you posted and
> followed up with this one. So, in other words the
> bug, or lack of feature
> is:
>
> Since libgd supports multiple alternate font paths
> separated by spaces,
> it is not possible to use individual font paths
> with spaces in them.
>
> Example:
>
> $path = 'c:\test folder\arial.ttf';
> imagettftext($image, 12, 0, 50, 50, $color,
> $path, "Hello");
>
> If the Boutell folks fix this we will integrate
> their fix in our bundled
> library, but otherwise I doubt you will find much
> interest from anybody
> here. Or better yet, fix it yourself and submit a
> patch. It is obvious
> from looking at the code that it is just doing a
> simple strtok on the
> separator without any further logic. The relevant
> code is:
>
> ext/gd/libgd/gdft.c:
>
> fontlist = gdEstrdup(a->fontlist);
>
>
>
> /*
> * Must use gd_strtok_r else pointer corrupted
> by strtok in nested loop.
> */
> for (name = gd_strtok_r (fontlist,
> LISTSEPARATOR, &strtok_ptr); name; name =
> gd_strtok_r (0, LISTSEPARATOR, &strtok_ptr)) {
>
> -Rasmus
>
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, choinet wrote:
>
> > Hello internals,
> > I am dealing with a rather annoying and very
> prolonged
> > problem here concerning a few of the GD functions
> that
> > use external fonts. I had originally posted the
> > problem as a bug report under #26635 under the
> false
> > assumption that PHP 4.3.4 simply had a problem
> with
> > relative pathnames to the fonts. However, after
> long
> > correspondence and troubleshooting on my part, I
> found
> > that there was a different problem behind the
> original
> > issue that was causing the problem. I posted this
> at
> > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26764?with the
> > assumption that it would be fixed.
> > ?
> > However, all I received was a rather nasty reply
> > telling me to quit reporting the problem. With
> that
> > being said, I apologize if I came across as
> > unnecessarily rude, but the developer was really
> > pushing my buttons. Since I have, on numerous
> > occasions, tried to clarify the problem and prove
> its
> > existence and have met very little help or action,
> I
> > am mailing the developer's list (emailing the bug
> > fixers doesn't help, and no one else has developer
> > access to the runtime source code).
> > ?
> > The bug (or problem, if you will) that I reported
> is
> > almost surely legitimate; it has been mentioned
> twice
> > in the imagettftext() pages concerning spaces in
> > pathnames, and has been verified by a moderator at
> > phpbuilder.net (Weedpacket), and I have shown
> > repeatedly in my examples and situations that such
> a
> > thing exists. I even looked at the source code for
> the
> > GD extension, and I clearly see
> >
> > /*
> > * The character (space) used to separate alternate
> > fonts in the
> > * fontlist parameter to gdImageStringFT.
> > */
> > #define LISTSEPARATOR " "
> >
> > on line 84 of /gd/libgd/gdft.c. This may not be
> the
> > deciding line of code that determines the
> separator
> > between alternate fonts, but I have checked spaces
> as
> > you can see in the bug report, and such a thing
> works.
> > Therefore, the only explanation for such pathnames
> > working in that fashion is if what I am claiming
> is
> > true.
> > ?
> > If you people?care to test it out, the code in the
> > aforementioned report will almost surely replicate
> the
> > problem, both on 4.3.4 and the latest STABLE CVS.
> If
> > this cannot be worked out in PHP or must be
> relegated
> > to the folks at boutell to handle, then at the
> very
> > least, please tell me, for it would certainly be
> much
> > more informative than denying the existence of
> this
> > problem. Thanks.
> >
> >
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