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Hello,

I am trying to incorporate this slick piece of curved code into something that allows me to have a sentence of text ride the border of the curve. I have used the imageSmoothArc function as you recommended.

However, when launching the code that you have created, I get an error on imagettftext. You can see it is happens in the for loop (line 44) and at the final call outside the loop.

Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/ci-oursitesb-com/public_html/test.php on line 44
Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/ci-oursitesb-com/public_html/test.php on line 44
Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/ci-oursitesb-com/public_html/test.php on line 44
Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/ci-oursitesb-com/public_html/test.php on line 44
Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/ci-oursitesb-com/public_html/test.php on line 44
Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/ci-oursitesb-com/public_html/test.php on line 47

Can you give me any idea why this would fail ?

Thanks so much for your effort on this creation.

Jay Lepore
CompuMatter

Hehe, never thought this old articles would be revived.

Its failing because it cannot find the font file. I guess I should have mentioned about it and not assume everyone knows how imagettftext() works.
Back in step 0, i guess because for some reason I have this code before step 1, where I define the variables you need to give relative path for font file you want to use for $font = . You can either copy it from your OS fonts directory or download them from any other fonts sites like www.1001freefonts.com/