I'm stumped. How can I load up an external font and have GD use it? I just want to print out a string into an image, then save it as a png. Nothing fancy. But I haven't been able to track down an example that works.

My gd config summary tells me that I have support for PNG, JPEG, Freetype 2.x, Fontconfig, Xpm, and pthreads. My GD is up to date w/2.35, and my gd version is 2.0.33. I'm running 10.4.8 on a macbook w/a core duo. Sample script along with sample results are attached. What do I need to change to make this work? Did I miss the proper incantation to produce my string, or am I doing it properly with one of the methods down below and something external is thwarting me? Any pointers appreciated.


#!/usr/bin/perl

use GD;
use strict;
use warnings;

my ($w, $h) = (50, 50);

my $img = GD::Image->new($w, $h);
my $white = $img->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
my $black = $img->colorAllocate(0,0,0);

my %pixmap = ();

my $monaco = GD::Font->load('/System/Library/Fonts/Monaco.dfont')
  or die "Can't load monaco!";

$img->rectangle(10,10,20,20,$black);

#this gives me a bus error
#$img->stringFT($black,'/System/Library/Fonts/Monaco.dfont',12,0,10,10
+,'A');

#this does nothing
#$img->stringFT($black,$monaco,12,0,10,10,'A');

#this dies with "font is not of type GD::Font "
#$img->string('/System/Library/Fonts/Monaco.dfont',10,10,'A',$black);

#this one does nothing
#$img->string($monaco,10,10,'A',$black);

$img->rectangle(0,0,10,10,$black);

open (IMG, ">/Users/jim/Desktop/img.png");
print IMG $img->png;
close IMG;

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