I have an html form which takes only one field - a textarea.
From this, I want to split the field on \n's, and then make
an image containing all the lines, with the breaks on each \n.
Here is the code I have:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# Simple image creation script - hopefully

use strict;
use GD;
use CGI qw(:standard);

#########################################################
# Set up all the globals                                #
#########################################################
# create a new image
my $im = new GD::Image(400, 200);
my $query = new CGI;

# allocate some colors
my $white = $im->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
my $black = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
my $red = $im->colorAllocate(255,0,0);
my $blue = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,255);

# make the background transparent and interlaced
$im->transparent($white);
$im->interlaced('true');

# Put a black frame around the picture
$im->rectangle(0,0,399,199, $black);
##########################################################
# End of the globals

##########################################################
# MAIN                                                   #
##########################################################

my $text = $query->param("text");
make_image($text);
exit(0);

##########################################################
# Make an image from the lines in the array
sub make_image {
    my $text = shift;
    my $counter = 80;
    my @lines = split(/\n/,$text);
    foreach my $line (@lines) {
        $im->stringTTF($black, "/home/httpd/html/ribbon.ttf", 12, 0, 1
+80, $counter, "$line");
        if ($@) {
            $im->string(gdSmallFont, 50, 150, "$@", $black);
            die "Cannot print!$!\n";
        }
        $counter += 10;
    }
    binmode STDOUT;
    print $query->header(-type=>'image/png');
    print $im->png;
}

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Unfortunately, the image is only showing " 'I " (The test
text is 'I love my wife'
(It's just a test, after all ;-)

As you can see, each line should be 10 pixels below the previous.
Can anyone help?

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