I successfully installed the screenwriter module, activated it and set up a variety of profiles, activated the profiles/filters and created a series of new pages as per the install instructions. using Drupal 5.1
Nothing happens.
Signwriter doesn't create the *signwriter-cache* folder, regardless of where I request it.
Even when I manually create a signwriter-cache folder, no images are ever created (regardless of where I put said folder).
I've tried with a variety of fonts. I've tried inputting non-existent fonts in the hopes of provoking an error message. Nothing.
I've tried with a variety of substitution strings. Even copying-and-pasting the sample code (or permutations thereof) doesn't do anything.
What do I need to to make this work?

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rpadua’s picture

rpadua commented

i can't make it work too.
i've tried everything...

mangz74’s picture

mangz74 commented

I have done everything and even researched more but still this module is not creating the expected images...I wonder what i am doing wrong?

asak’s picture

asak commented

Same here.
Text shows up as text not as image.

Hemm....

mr.alinaki’s picture

mr.alinaki commented

I just have the same problem... Drupal 5.5

brewreview.info’s picture

brewreview.info commented

Same-same here. No joy with 5.5 -- and I followed the instructions to-the-letter..., a rarity for me. :-}
//TB

ipwa’s picture

ipwa commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

I have the same problem here, I guess general consensus from this issue is that the module doesn't work correctly? Or is it that we all have done something wrong? If so I'd really appreciate any of the modules maintainers to please give us some feedback. The module sounds AWESOME, too bad we couldn't get it to work.

Best regards,

Nicolas

edmonkey’s picture

edmonkey commented
Priority: Critical » Minor

ditto above comment (i'm on drupal 5.7)
fingers crossed!

sir_falcon’s picture

sir_falcon commented

I got it working now...

I had the problem that images were generated but not inserted in the node...
this changed after deactivation of the HTML- input filter...

samples on my testsite:
see: http://drupal5.mathing.de/node/1
and http://drupal5.mathing.de/node/2

best regards

sir_falcon

hbar’s picture

hbar commented
Version: 5.x-1.1 » 5.x-1.x-dev
Priority: Minor » Critical

I've got a similar problem. Signwriter did create it's image directory (files/signwriter-cache), but is failing to generate any images. I checked, and the folder was created by Apache with permissions of 775. I also tried pointing Signwriter to my own files/signwriter folder (777), but no joy.

Also, Signwriter is generating empty image tags. From the generated html:
<h1 class="title"><span style='display: none'>My Title</span><img src='' alt='My Title' />.

Is this a bug? It seems many people have similar problems. Signwriter works perfectly on my local MAMP setup, it's a great module! :-)

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luco commented

what I found was that you could switch angular brackets ("<" and ">") with square brackets ("[" and "]"). but the result was kinda messy. maybe I didn't get the regular expression right?

anyways you can't use angular brackets because they get stored as HTML entities ("<" turns into "&lt;") and that pretty much invalidates the code.

any thoughts that don't involve editing source code? o_O"

agileware’s picture

agileware commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

We really need more information on this one to help fix. It's not a bug in the module, as it works. You need the GD library installed into PHP, Apache directory permissions must be correct and Apache must be able to access to the directory where the TTF are located.

This could be quite hard to trouble-shoot via the issue queue, so closing as we need more info.

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asak commented

Signwriter now works for me.

One thing to check: make sure the names of the fonts end with lowercase .ttf and not uppercase .TTF