Posted by Philip Ronan on 11/16/07 11:28

"Ben" wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience using the TrueType bytecode interpreter
> to display fonts in PHP under Windows? I'm running Windows XP, PHP
> 4.3.11, GD 2.0.28 with FreeType enabled. It all works fine, but it's
> using the FreeType anti-aliased hinting rather than the clear Windows
> non-antialiased (bytecode interpreter?) hinting.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks to me like your Windows system is using a
bitmap screen font rather than relying on byte codes to correct the glyph
shapes. Try installing a fixed point size (bitmap only) font in your server
and see if that helps.

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