PHP Imagick Font not Loading

[Contact PlutonMedia]

Hi,

Is there a trick to be able to load a custom font and use compositeImage?

Here is my code :

app.yaml

application: the_name
version: 1
runtime: php55
api_version: 1
threadsafe: yes


handlers:
- url: /favicon\.ico
  static_files: favicon.ico
  upload: favicon\.ico


- url: /009\.jpg
  static_files: 009.jpg
  upload: 009\.jpg
  application_readable: true


- url: /RosewoodStdRegular\.otf
  static_files: RosewoodStdRegular.otf
  upload: RosewoodStdRegular\.otf
  mime_type: application/x-font-otf


- url: /arial\.ttf
  static_files: arial.ttf
  upload: arial\.ttf
  mime_type: application/x-font-ttf


- url: .*
  script: main.php

main.php

<?php
try {


 $img = new Imagick("009.jpg");
 
 $img->setImageCompressionQuality(100);
 
 //ADD TEXT
 $text = array(
 'width' => 300,
 'height'=> 80,
 'x' => 420,
 'y' => 160,
 'font' => 'arial.ttf',
 'color' => 'black',
 'value' => "Coucou"
 );
 
 $addText = new Imagick();
 $addText->setBackgroundColor("transparent");
 $addText->setFont($text['font']);
 $addText->newPseudoImage($text['width'],$text['height'], "Caption:".$text['value'] );
 $addText->colorizeImage($text['color'],1);
 $img->compositeImage($addText, Imagick::COMPOSITE_OVER, $text['x'], $text['y']);
 
 
 
 $img->setImageFormat('jpg');
 //header('Content-Type: image/jpg');
 //echo $img;
 
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Caught exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), "\n";
}

But I get 

Caught exception: The given font is not found in the ImageMagick configuration and the file (app_path/1.388444744529109221/arial.ttf) is not accessible

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

It seems as though the font can't be found at the path specified. Could you use PHP dir() functionality to explore the app_path/1.388444744529109221 directory and see whether arial.ttf is within a subdirectory?

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

(that would be scandir())

On Monday, November 9, 2015 at 7:09:03 AM UTC-5, Contact PlutonMedia wrote:

[Contact PlutonMedia]

Hi Nick and thank you for your help,

I changed some things (It's working well on localhost).

So using Imagick to load an image works, but when trying to write text on it I get the 500 Internal server error.

Do you know if someone succeeded in writing text on an image using Imagick ?

Best regards

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

So, the 500 error is due to the error you reported above, which explains that it can't find the .ttf file. If the function exists, surely it's meant to be used, and surely many people have used it successfully. The issue isn't that nobody has written text on an image using Imagick, it's that in your case, arial.ttf is not where you think it is. As suggested in my last message, why not make calls to scandir() and determine where arial.ttf really is?

[Mars Lan]

Have you tried adding "application_readable" to arial.ttf? https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/config/appconfig#application_readable

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Ahh, I can't believe I had missed that. This is highly likely to be the solution I think.

[Contact PlutonMedia]

Hi,

Yes my app.yaml is as follow :

application: image-generator-1124

version: 1

runtime: php55

api_version: 1

threadsafe: yes

handlers:

- url: /favicon\.ico

  static_files: favicon.ico

  upload: favicon\.ico

- url: /009\.jpg

  static_files: 009.jpg

  upload: 009\.jpg

  application_readable: true

- url: /arial\.ttf

  static_files: arial.ttf

  upload: arial\.ttf

  mime_type: application/x-font-truetype

  application_readable: true

- url: .*

  script: main.php

The scandir output is : 

Array
(
    [0] => .
    [1] => ..
    [2] => 009.jpg
    [3] => app.yaml
    [4] => arial.ttf
    [5] => main.php
    [6] => php.ini
)

Still getting the error

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

I suggest at this point that you open a public issue tracker issue, including a .zip of your app (possibly simplified) which is sufficient to reproduce the issue and observe it. This forum isn't meant for specific-issue, one-on-one technical support, but should function as a more general discussion forum for the platform and services. If you post to the public issue tracker, you'll be posting in the correct manner to have this looked-at with an eye to a solution.