Replying to my own question! :-) Thanks for GD & PerlMagick tips. It seems that the annotation functions in PerlMagick under Windows requires an X-server to be present. I was hoping to call the bitmap text annotation functions from a script under dos/windows without the need for an X-server etc. The text annotation on bitmap stuff will be done on a PC running Windows 95. The PC will be running a H.320 video on demand server application (written in C++). I need to generate dynamic bitmaps from this server app (by calling a perl script to do the magic) so I think running an X server on this machine as well isn't such an elegant solution as a stand alone (small) module. Anyone know how to do this without having to have an X server present etc? thanks all for your help. matt

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