Is it possible to add GD/TTF support to PHP without recompiling?

I've tried searching for this topic on SO but all the results are about recompiling, rather than about not recompiling.

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Is it possible to load GD and true type font libraries so that I have access to the function imagettfbbox() and imagettftext()

I'm using CentOS, Apache, PHP 5.25.

Thanks

Most Linux distributions have a php-gd (or php5-gd) package readily available through the package manager. You just have to find it, and install it.

For Ubuntu and Debian, package name is "php5-gd"; you should have to type in sudo apt-get install php5-gd, and then restart Apache with /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.