in reply to Image::Magick Annotate() doesn't look good

Have you tried specifying the font option to be something like: "Times" or "Times 12" etc? You're specifying a font file in there and typically you specify fonts by name. I haven't tried this myself, but looking at the annotate.pl file I saw on CPAN there were three different specifications for font there(two were commented out).

Whatever underlying OS mechanism that renders the fonts might not be too happy with an incorrect font specification and just tries to give you what it can.

You may also want to try and open up a program like "Paint" on your PC and see if it renders 40point Times any better.

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Re2: Image::Magick Annotate() doesn't look good
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 20, 2003 at 19:21 UTC
    I tried it in Word and it looked just as crappy. I really don't want to create images of each character and clean it up, but it's looking like I'm going to have to do that. *cries*

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