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How to convert text to SVG paths?

October 17, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a font in ttf file and want to generate SVG with text turned into paths. I don’t need image (so using imagettftext or Image Magick font rendering capabilities is not enough), I need shape, that can be scaled up and down and I want to lose information about font used and don’t want to reference it in SVG file (so font-face declarations can’t be used here). Is it possible?

Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/a2424901/public_html/index.php on line 35

October 15, 2022 by Magenaut

Depending on which version of the GD library PHP is using, when fontfile does not begin with a leading / then .ttf will be appended to the filename and the library will attempt to search for that filename along a library-defined font path.