Hi,

I wish to include text on a png image. With respect to the following page:

http://baz.perlmonk.org/surname_alba.cgi?name=Griffin,

I'd like to include "Scale: 0 to 9" and "Scale: 0 to 1.21%" within the png images. The problem I've had with this is that the four built-in GD fonts, gdLargeFont, gdSmallFont, gdMediumBoldFont, and gdTinyFont, are much too small for the images I'm using. The Copyright text was included via a seperate bitmap. Is there any way of using other font types with GD::Image::string, besides the four built-in fonts? If not, then I guess my only option is to create 10 bitmaps for the numbers 0 to 9, and use them to produce the numbers I need.

Cheers,
Barry.

In reply to Font question regarding GD.pm by Baz

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