Posted by alberto56 on October 16, 2009 at 6:23pm
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| Project: | Signwriter |
| Version: | 6.x-2.0-beta1 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
Hi,
my site is generating the error "Unable to generate a signwriter image with font at size Array" The error is rather cryptic -- it's hard to figure out what it means and what can be done to fix the problem. Perhaps it might be a good idea to make it easier to understand what that error means.
Everything works otherwise, and the images are properly generated. Thanks for your module!
Albert.
Comments
#1
The error here is actually that it says Array instead of the size. It should actually say the font size. So if that is fixed your problem is solved.
I would imagine if you are seeing this error then it is possible that not all of your signwriter text is being displayed as a signwriter image.
#2
I have the same issue here.
Drupal says exactly: "# warning: imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not read font in /home/svn/drupal6/sites/all/modules/signwriter/signwriter.module on line 628.
# Unable to generate a signwriter image with font at size Array."
Any ideas?
#3
What are your font settings for the profile that is failing (primarily font-size value)?
If you don't know which profile it is give them all.
#4
I left the default font size to 20 for testing the module.
#5
I was getting that same error -- however the font sample (one font available) wasn't generating. I uploaded some other true type fonts and they worked fine -- so it was a problem with the actual TTF font file. Don't know why, but I thought I'd offer that a troubleshooting tip.
#6
I have the same error. In my case headers in Russian are OK, in English are errors. Take a look on header in Russian - http://oribern.ru/ru and on absence of header in English - http://oribern.ru/en. Same are for page titles.
Settings of site header:
Font - Heuristica Bold
Size - 24
Multiline on
Three state off
Shadow on
Transparency on
Border off
Max width - 700
Align - left
Image type - png
#7
i have the same issue, its because $image->fontfile[0] is 0 (NULL),
#8
Same problem here.
Solution is : download the font arial for example here (http://www.fontemple.com/free-download/612-Arial.html) and place it in the signwriter directory where you call the font name do it like this:
$profile->fontfile = drupal_get_path('module', 'signwriter'). '/Arial.TTF';Why it doesnt detect a basic font like arial I dont know. I have this problem localy on windows7 and ubuntu. As on the server which runs Centos. The arial files are in fact present on all three Operating systems.
#9
Must of slipt to task. Sorry.
#10
Another related question: Why is this error being shown to anonymous users on the front page??!!!
edit: In my case the error was being caused by a change my shared host made to the directory structure. I had used an absolute path for the fronts folder and fixed it by changing it to a relative path... ended up using: ../public_html/fonts
#11
Yes, same issue here : Image fontfile[0] is null, but I noticed that it does that only for special caracters or accents.
I have set "All" in the Allowed non-ASCII characters field in profile config. So I get the error, but the image for the word, and the special character is well generated !
Don't know how to fix it...
#12
Same problem, but it only occurs when using a profile name with special characters or spaces. Try to use another (simple) profile name and, if you are using loading of profiles manually in your theme, ensure the
signwriter_load_profile('[name of profile]')has exactly the same profile name.#13
Not sure why, but the solution in #12 seems to remove this error from appearing on my site (removing spaces from the profile names).