I think this is the specific code that worked for me. There are a few weird things at the end because I am using EMBPERL. This is on a CentOS release 6.5 build. 
use GD;

$first  = "First Name";
$middle = "Middle Name";
$last   = "Last Name";

$image = "/www/images/image.jpg";
$im     = GD::Image->newFromJpeg($image);
($width, $height) = $im->getBounds();

$outim  = new GD::Image($width, $height);
$outim->copyResampled($im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width, $heigh
+t);

# name
$fgcolor    = $outim->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
$fontname   = '/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf';
$ptsize     = 20;
$angle      = 0;
$x          = 345;
$y          = 275;
$string     = ucfirst($first) . ($middle ne '' ? ' ' . ucfirst($middle
+) : '') . ' ' . ucfirst($last);

@bounds = new GD::Image->stringFT($fgcolor,$fontname,$ptsize,$angle,$x
+,$y,$string);
$left   = ($outim->width() / 2) - (($bounds[2] - $bounds[0]) / 2) + 5;
$top    = ($outim->height() / 2) - ($bounds[7] - $bounds[1]) / 2;

$outim->stringFT($fgcolor, $fontname,$ptsize,$angle,$left,$y,$string);
+ 

# make sure we are writing to a binary stream
binmode STDOUT;
select(STDOUT);
$| = 1;
undef $/;

$http_headers_out{'Content-Type'} = "image/png";

$escmode = 0;
print OUT $outim->png();

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In reply to Re^4: Centering Text with GD::Image by djlerman
in thread Centering Text with GD::Image by djlerman

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