title: kerning problem in GD and php 5.3
body: <p>Knowing this problem has been adressed before at
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2610019/php-update-kerning-problem-with-imagettftext-and-imagefttext-functions">PHP update kerning problem with imagettftext() and imagefttext() functions</a>
  but witout solution;</p>
  
  <p>PHP5.3 seem to have kerning problems when printing text:</p>
  
  <p>Look at the 'x' in the following examples (font: Ubuntu-M.ttf):</p>
  
  <p>PHP5.2, ubuntu (good)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CcyIP.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>PHP5.3.2, ubuntu (worse, x is fattened)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qdwne.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>PHP5.3.2, MAMP OSX (horrible)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rrDOF.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Is there any solution to this?</p>
  
  <p>Anyone with 5.3.6 installed care to try this?</p>
  
  <p>regards,
  //t</p>