From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: when I run a php script which contains the imagettftext command, I get no output. The httpd error log contains the following: [Mon Oct 28 20:51:44 2002] [info] (104)Connection reset by peer: core_output_filter: writing data to the network [Mon Oct 28 20:51:44 2002] [info] (32)Broken pipe: core_output_filter: writing data to the network If I run the same php script with the imagettftext command commented out, no errors are logged and the correct image is output to the browser. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.compose a php script using the imagettftext command. 2.run the script 3.observe the browser output 4.check the httpd error log. Actual Results: no output image is produced in the browser. Expected Results: the output image containing the required text should have been sent to the browser. Additional info: using the RH 8.0 supplied gd, php and freetype programs
Solution found. When specifying the font file to use, the path to the font file must be absolute. i.e. /var/www/html/project/arial.ttf not just project/arial.ttf.