Image: Loading custom font file not working

[bkkrishna]

I am getting either of the two problems below, even after specifying the correct public path.

Call to undefined function Intervention\Image\Gd\imagettfbbox()

or

Intervention \ Image \ Exception \ NotSupportedException
Internal GD font () not available. Use only 1-5.`

I also viewed this issue but could not get any help : https://github.com/Intervention/image/issues/149 Can anyone find out the cause of such errors?
My code is :

$img->text($text, 275, 200, function($font) {
            $font->file(public_path('assets/fonts/Alpaca.ttf'));
            $font->size(60);
            $font->color('#fdf6e3');
            $font->align('center');
            $font->valign('middle');
            $font->angle(45);
        });

[olivervogel]

Call to undefined function Intervention\Image\Gd\imagettfbbox()

I would say for some reason the GD function imagettfbbox is missing on your system. Maybe GD is not installed completely or not installed at all?

[bkkrishna]

Thank you for your reply.
The problem though was that my server had GD support enabled but Freetype was not installed.
Its working like a charm now.

[ronnyandre]

I installed Freetype, but how do I activate it for PHP?

[bkkrishna]

If you are on a Mac (like I was), MAMP will do the heavy lifting for you. That was what I did at this particular case : after installing Freetype, use MAMP as the local development server.

[ronnyandre]

I'm using Homestead and Vagrant.

[otjutt]

I'm using Homestead and Vagrant.

It has to be installed inside the vagrant box. You can SSH inside your machine via 'vagrant ssh'.

[asbiin]

I've solved this in a docker image with

apt-get install -y libpng-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev && \
docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ && \
docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc) gd