imagettftext font problem 1

[draigGoch]

Hi,
I have a captcha php script that I downloaded from

http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/articles/php-captcha-help.php

and it worked great on one website - linux hosting i think, but after transferring it onto another website (windows hosting i think), it seems to be working except that the characters that are displayed are hollow rectangles (illegal characters). I'm at my wits' end!

Any help would be appreciated.

A computer always does what you tell it to, but rarely does what you want it to.....

 

[jpadie]

true type fonts on windows may be different to their equivalents on different architectures. it is the big-endian-ness that is the culprit i believe.

upload a proper windows ttf to the new server and use that instead.

 

[draigGoch]

that's it! Thank you so much.... that has been bugging me all morning, i was trying to encode the string and everything!

I uploaded the arial.ttf from my xp machine and it works!

A computer always does what you tell it to, but rarely does what you want it to.....