Load fonts for GD

[MasterKaos]

Hi I'm writing a PHP program using image functions in the GD library.

The server it is running on is from a hosting provider, so i have very limited configuration options. I am unable to use .htaccess and of course i can't modify the php.ini file.

Fortunately PHP is configured with GD enabled, however to use the font fucntions in GD - such as imagefttext() or imagettftext() - i have to have the FreeType library loaded.

My Question: Is there any way of loading libraries in PHP at runtime? For example are there any PHP functions that let me specify a path to a library and to enable it?

For now i'm using the imagestring() function which returns rather primitive looking text but it's better than nothing.

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[KarveR]

When doing this stuff, I specify the font fiel I want to use like so :

$font_file = $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]."/somefont.ttf";

Never gives me any grief at all.

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