PHP 5.5 GD package missing functions!

[Robin]

I've tried to migrate my existing PHP application to PHP 5.5 after getting the prompting e-mail from Google.  My image code using the GD devel package uses imagettftext, which worked on the previous instance of PHP but on PHP 5.5 it no longer works.  I've located that the problem is that the imagettftext function is not supported.

I believe this is because FreeType was not installed along with GD.

Similar problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15000063/php-imagettftext-not-working-and-gd-installed

[Adam]

This looks like a good one to report here:

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/FilingIssues