I've been going bald the past few days trying to figure this out. I'm using Image::Magick to add text to a transparent image. The ultimate goal is to add some text to an image so that it looks exactly like this html text:

FONT COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="arial,helvetica,verdana" SIZE="1">Some Text Here

The problem here is that my resulting image looks like garbage. The image is squished, the text is too fat, the backgroud is grainy.

Here is what I've been playing with. I've experimented with all sorts of combos but still can't get it to work:

use Image::Magick;
my $image = Image::Magick->new;
my $fontdir= 'c:\winnt\fonts';
opendir FONTDIR, $fontdir;
my @fonts = grep /arial.ttf$/, readdir FONTDIR;
$image -> Set (size=>"320x20");
$image -> ReadImage("xc:white");
for my $font (@fonts) { 
     $image -> Annotate(
        text     => 'Test', 
        stroke   =>"#FF0000", 
    strokewidth  =>'1',
    style    =>'normal',
    weight   =>'1',
        x        =>5,
        y        =>15, 
        pointsize=>12, 
    antialias => 0,
        font     =>"\@$fontdir\\$font");
}
$image -> write ("jpg:test.jpg");

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In reply to Image::Magick ->Annotate Text by tobiasaries

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