word is too big, try to use less letters, smaller font or bigger background

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when I install it, I found this error. I am using Tomcat 5.0, MySQL 4.11. When I register a user, that activation image has broken. I guess, it is related to UTF8 and mysql.

Any clues ?

Caused by: com.octo.captcha.CaptchaException: word is too big, try to use less letters, smaller font or bigger background
        at com.octo.captcha.image.gimpy.GimpyFactory.getImageCaptcha(GimpyFactory.java:547)
        at com.octo.captcha.image.gimpy.GimpyFactory.getImageCaptcha(GimpyFactory.java:515)
        at com.octo.captcha.engine.image.ListImageCaptchaEngine.getNextImageCaptcha(ListImageCaptchaEngine.java:559)
        at net.jforum.entities.UserSession.createNewCaptcha(UserSession.java:347)
        at net.jforum.view.forum.UserAction.insert(UserAction.java:142)
        ... 31 more
Caused by: com.octo.captcha.CaptchaException: word is too big, try to use less letters, smaller font or bigger background
        at com.octo.captcha.component.image.textpaster.RandomTextPaster.getRandomDeviation(RandomTextPaster.java:533)
        at com.octo.captcha.component.image.textpaster.RandomTextPaster.pasteText(RandomTextPaster.java:515)
        at com.octo.captcha.component.image.wordtoimage.ComposedWordToImage.pasteText(ComposedWordToImage.java:587)
        at com.octo.captcha.component.image.wordtoimage.AbstractWordToImage.getImage(AbstractWordToImage.java:517)
        at com.octo.captcha.image.gimpy.GimpyFactory.getImageCaptcha(GimpyFactory.java:544)
        ... 35 more

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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[originally posted on jforum.net by GreenEyed]