Hello there:

I have installed pici-server on CentOS 5, but it displayed invalid characters on PNG after generating the Chinese web pages. I can not read it....

Which step I lost?
Could you help me to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot,

Hi Matthew
Most probably you wont have installed Fonts for the Chinese language. Install as many fonts as possible. There is a tutorial in the developer section with a Font-Sheet to test:
http://dev.picidae.net/dev/wiki/LinuxFontInstallation
Hope this fixes you problem

Hi, Mathias:

By your recommend, I installed many fonts, and run "web2pici [Chinese Website] test" shell command , the test.png is correct. Even I run "/usr/bin/sudo -u root /var/www/html/pici-server/ADMIN/mkpicture_xvfb.sh "/var/www/html/pici-server/ADMIN/web2pici" "/var/www/html/pici-server/CACHE" "xyz-2" "http//......." "localhost:10.0" "/root" ", it also produce correct characters PNG file.
:)

BUT, I went back to pici-server, it produced incomplete characters PNG(i.e. some Chinese words lost)...

I don't know why?

Could you help me to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot,

In short, the result PNG which run shell command: "web2pici [someone Chinese Website] test" is totally correct and perfect.

But, When I submit the same URL to pici-server web server, it gets the PNG which lost some Chinese words. Black points instead of some words.

PHP GD, mcrypt have installed successfully, and sudo setup has appended to /etc/sudoers.

Could you help me or give me some hints to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot,

Is it possible that some fonts are not accessible to the user that runs web2pici when done from the web?

The problem is solved. :)

I appended $LANG with locale value to $env array in linuxpici.class.php. It works on web and result PNG is perfect. :)

Many Thanks for your efforts about pcic-server. d^^b