Im writing a simple web application that will allow for using a already made web design and their own name as the banner, to do this ive decided to use GD to simply draw the banner, all it needs to be is a white rectanle with some blue writing in, as far as i could tell this would be easy. I wrote this code to address the problem. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use GD;
use strict;

my $im = new GD::Image(569,45) or die "new: $!";
my ($white,$blue) = (
  $im->colorAllocate(255, 255, 255),
  $im->colorAllocate(114, 126, 170)
) or die "colors";
$im->stringFT($blue, "/home/development/archivesystem/ARLRDBD.TTF", 12
+.0, 0.0, 0, 0, "kokomo") or die "writing: $!";
binmode STDOUT or die "binmode: $1";
print $im->png or die "no png :o";

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But when i run this code it returns no errors and only prints a white rectangle with no writing, which is quite odd in my opinoin. If any clever people could enlighten me to this situation i would be most appricative. Thanks

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