Fellow Monasterians,

I can draw primitives (boxes, lines, circles) with Imager without problems. But I'm trying to get text to work. All I get is a blank screen. I have it feeling it's a font issue: I'm using the wrong path, the wrong type, or. . . .

I have uploaded Copperplate.dfont (Mac) right into my cgi-bin folder. I would like to try something like Arial.ttf, but they are all 0 bytes on my machine.

So, what am I not getting here? Thanks in advance!

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Imager;

my $img = Imager->new(xsize=>400,ysize=>300);
$img->box(filled=>1, color=>"ffffff"); #fill the background color

my $font = Imager::Font->new(
   file  => 'Copperplate.dfont',
   index => 0,
   color => '444444',
   size  => 30,
   aa    => 1);
   
$img->string(
   font=>$font,
   text=>'This is a test string',
   x=>20,
   y=>10);    
               
 $img->write(file=>"drawing.jpg", type=>"jpeg") or die "Cannot write f
+ile: ", Imager->errstr;

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In reply to How to use Imager for text by bradcathey

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